Director of Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Professor Kwesi Aning, has said that notorious illegal miner, Aisha Huang is a Chinese spy .
On Wednesday, September 7, 2022, Prf. Aning told Accra-based JoyNews said the espionage escapades of Aisha Huang who is also called Huang En is discernible from the way she was deported from the country in 2018 upon her first arrest for galamsey. …
Huang En, according to Prof. Aning, is so consequential that her arrest may incur Ghana consequences in respect of the Sino Hydro loan that Ghana is seeking from the China Government.
“There’s a massive institutionalized trafficking scheme enabled by high-level corruption and collusion. And we find this in galamsey. In the Rosewood criminal enterprise, the Chinese merchant involved or the state agent involved is Huang Yan Chen also known as Helena Huang so what we are looking at is that these criminal enterprises are not just by ordinary people.
“These are state agents who are almost untouchable because if we go back to 2017 and 2018 escape of Aisha Huang and the argument that she has been released because we were looking for the Sino-Hydro loan and that was she to be prosecuted, it would affect the loan, then Aisha is not an ordinary Chinese gangster. She’s an agent of the state. She’s a spy.”
It would be recalled that after her deportation in 2018, then Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo had explained that Ghana did not prosecute Hunag because there were serious diplomatic consequences to consider.
Prof. Aning also accuses her of deliberately destroying the environment in Ghana with galamsey in a plot to destroy the country’s cocoa.
“And her expertise is in economic warfare; deliberately destroying our environment and our waterbodies through galamsey so that the cyanide and the mercury will go through our underground water, come through the food chain and destroy the cocoa crop. And we know that Japan in particular that loved our cocoa beans is now disturbed because they found traces of chemicals in our cocoa beans. So we need to elevate this conversation over and above ordinary people stealing excavators,” Prof Aning said.
Aisha Huang was recently arrested in Ghana and has since been arraigned before court for galamsey.
After her deportation in 2018 over illegal mining, Huang sneaked into Ghana, with a changed name and registered as a Ghanaian citizen for a Ghana card claiming to be called Huang En.
She is said to have stolen back into the country through a land border from a neighbouring country.
It was upon her successful return into the country that she acquired a Ghana card in February 2022 with a new name, Huang En.
She has since been remanded by an Accra High Court and is set to reappear with three others on September 14.
The Attorney General’s office has also assured that it will prosecute Aisha Huang for her past and present crimes.