Galamsey Queen’s Sneak Back Into Ghana Is No Big Deal …Gabby

The founder of pro-NPP think tank, Danquah Institute (DI), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has downplayed public displeasure over the fact that notorious Chinese illegal miner, Aisha Huang, managed to outwit Ghana’s border patrol and sneak into the country.

In a Facebook post, Gabby who is also a notorious cousin of President Akufo-Addo, called the public concerns, “overbash” and that even first world countries with better border security do not always catch all infiltrators.

“Why do we love to overbash ourselves? Even in island UK, illegal immigrants (Black Africans included) sneak in. She’s been caught and under arrest; there, our system worked. Vote for a 2024 manifesto which promises you a wall across our borders,” the DI founder wrote.

The position by Gabby will come across to many as hypocritical attaempt to defend the incompetence of his cousin’s government.

There have been concern that if even a yellow skinned Aisha Huang who was deported from the country in 2018 over galamsey can sneak past Ghana’s border patrol, then the porosity of the borders are probably bad enough to allow terrorists from neighboring countries in.

Among the unhappy voices is award winning investigative journalist, Manasseh Awuni Azure, who has demanded that president Alkufo-Addo resign if he cannot fire anybody.

But according to Gabby, it is no big deal because even in places like the UK, border patrols fail to stop infiltrators.

Aisha Huang, aka Galamsey Queen, is facing two charges together with three conspirators, Johng Li Hua, Huang Jei and Huaid Hai Hun: mining without licence and engaging in the sale and purchase of minerals without a valid licence.

What has shocked many is that Huang was deported in 2018 over galamsey but managed to sneak back into the country and return to galamsey for some time before she was apprehended.

In May 2017, she had been charged with three counts of undertaking small-scale mining operations, contrary to Section 99 (1) of the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703); providing mining support services without valid registration with the Minerals Commission, and contrary to the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703), and the illegal employment of foreign nationals, contrary to the Immigration Act, 2000 (Act 573).

While the case was ongoing, the government suddenly discontinued the case and deported her in December 2018 raising eyebrows among lots of concerned citizens.