Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Minister of Information, has entangled himself in a web of lies, in his attempt to make a goofing president Akufo-Addo look good to save his job.
Following Mr. Akufo-Addo’s shocking revelation that he is not sure Aisha Huang was deported from Ghana in 2018 as claimed by national security, Oppong Nkrumah sprang like Hitler’s Goebbels to do damage control for the president.
And in the move to rehabilitate the image of the president, the Minister claimed that Aisha Huang had not been deported but repatriated from the country instead.
However, this claim has been exposed as lies by state prosecutors in Aisha Huang’s case before the Accra circuit court on Wednesday.
According to the prosecution, the first accused sneaked out of the country after her initial arrest.
Aisha Huang, according to the D/Inspr Eric Osei-Mensah, then re-entered in a similar fashion this year.
This was after she changed the details on her Chinese passport to aid her to evade the authorities.
“The 1st accused again resumed the small scale mining activities without license and together with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th accused persons engaged in the purchase and sale of minerals in Accra without valid authority granted as required by the Minerals and Mining Act,” portions of the charge fact sheet read.
Oppong Nkrumah has eggs upon his face again in his over-eager attempt to defend a goofing Mr. President Akufo-Addo.
The president on Monday told a radio station in Ho that he is “not still sure whether she was in fact deported,” a section of Ghanaians were taken aback.
“Or whether she fled the country the first time and has now come back. There still seems to be some uncertainty about it,” he said at a Ho-based radio station.
The bomb shell has been a shock, coming from the Commander-in-chief of the Ghana armed forces. Hasn’t anybody been briefing him all this while?
Meanwhile, another twist to the Aisha Huang cantankerous story has popped up. According to her lawyer, Nkrabea Effah Darteh, she is married to a Ghanaian.
Speaking in an interview on Accra-based Citi FM on Wednesday, September 14, he said this was revealed to him when they engaged his services.
“I know she is married to a Ghanaian. I know this because of her Ghanaian husband, a businessman in Kumasi and a Master’s degree holder from a Chinese University.”
“He came to my office to engage me as a lawyer,” he stated.