The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joseph Ade Coker has charged President Akufo-Addo and his party to send the GITMO-2 ex-detainees back to where they promised during the 2016 elections.
“No law in this country is binding NPP to continue keeping the two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees in Ghana. They should stop behaving as if the documents granted them by the past government automatically guarantees their forever stay in the country, not even can a Ghanaian citizen’s passport keep them in the country when the president wants them out of the land”, he said.
He would rather President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo keep to his words irrespective of the report that Ex-President John Mahama has given them refugee status or the amount of money the USA paid to Ghana for their upkeep.
He advised the current government to desist from focusing on the dealings of the past government but rather focus on the future and what they have to offer, since the baton is now in their hand.
He spoke during a panel discussion on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ programme Tuesday morning.
The Yemenis came to Ghana in January 2016 to stay for two years under a diplomatic agreement as the United States government worked to close down its infamous detention center, Guantanamo Bay, where the suspects lived for 14 years.
Ghanaians were under the impression, the two suspects could be sent back to US or another country if the government was no longer interested in keeping them here.
But it has emerged government’s options have been narrowed because of a decision taken by the previous NDC government.
The Mahama government granted them refugee status and therefore Ghana is obliged to keep them in the country if they fear to live in another.
Ghana is a signatory to UN conventions on refugees which protects refugees.
The US government cannot take back the former suspects because the Mahama government failed to agree on exit plans with the superpower, the Foreign Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has said.
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YOU JUST LIKE ANY OF YOU ANDC COMMENTATORS DEFENDING THE MESS YOU LEFT BEHIND. INSTEAD OF SHOWING REMORSE YOU CONTINUE TO DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE. YOU WILL BE SORRY FOR THE NEXT ELECTION. GHANAIANS WILL PUNISH YOU SEVERELY FOR YOUR RECKLESS AND CORRUPT GOVERNMENT.
GO AND TELL J MAHAMA TO TAKE THEM BACK WHEREEVER HE GOT THEM FROM. UPON ALL YOUR BRAVELY BRINGING THESE GUYS TO GHANA AND GRANTED THEM ASYLUM WITHIN THEIR 2 YEAR MANDATE, YOU ARE TELLING NANA TO DO WHAT. IF YOU WANTED NANA TO TAKE THEM BACK, WHY J MAHAMA GRANTED THEM THE ASYLUM WITHIN THEIR TWO YEAS GIVEN TO THEM. ANYWAY WHO FORCED J MAHAMA TO BRING THEM TO GHANA IN THE FIRST PLACE. BE BOLD AND ASK YOUR J MAHAMA THE REASONS WHY HE DID TO GHANAIANS, ABONIFO PARTY NDC.
See another m0ron. They've lost all their sense of shame. Their elders are more ***barred word****ish than the young ones.
ade u are a shithole
I wish these NDC guys had some shame.
In this world it is not difficult to see how a pilferer who is able to acquire a flat in the vilaggio within 4 months of coming into power , sleeping with small girls all over the place , a man who does not think before he speaks but rather wonder whether what he said made sense still feels that he can still blab that amoeba foul mouth of his . The discerning Ghanaian is watching , I believe the $350,000 you collected has finished due to your womanising. Time will tell .
Hw3 no K.wasia bi
The NDC administration just wanted to make things murkier for the NPP administrtaion should they win power and that is what we are witnessing now.
They’re YOUR (Ndc) sons. Adopt them and stop being obnoxious!
Irresponsible **************************