Peter Lanchene Toobu, The Member of Parliament for Wa West Constituency has tasked government to use Technology and residents in Ghana’s border towns to fight illegal migrants.
This comes after Galamsey Queen, Aisha Huang, was re-arrested and remanded by Accra Circuit Court for her involvement in illegal small-scale mining activities.
Aisha Huang was arrested in 2017 and deported to China for her involvement in illegal mining activities.
Hearing the case Monday, September 5, three suspects, Jong Li Huang, Huang Jei and Huiad Huang pleaded not guilty in court to a charge of engaging in sales and purchases of minerals without license.
She is also separately on a provisional charge of engaging in mining without a licence.
Her plea on the two charges was reserved due to the unavailability of a Chinese interpreter when she appeared at the Circuit Court in Accra on September 1.
In an interview with host of Atinka FM’s AM Drive, Kaakyire Ofori Ayim, Peter Lanchene Toobu, the Member of Parliament for Wa West Constituency has called on government to employ the use of Technology as well as local indigenes along the country’s border towns to fish out illegal migrants entering Ghana.
Peter Lanchene Toobu who is also a former executive secretary to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) says he is certain that but for the intervention of residents in the area Aisha Huang was hiding, it would have been difficult apprehending her for the second time.
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“Donald Trump wanted to build a tall wall at the US border between Mexico to prevent illegal migrants from entering USA, that will not be possible in Ghana, we need to use Technology and also use the locals in the border towns to fight this canker,” Peter Toobu added.
Meanwhile the Attorney General Department and the Ministry of Justice has called for the docket on Aisha Huang for prosecution.
“Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has called for the docket on En Huang, a.k.a. Aisha Huang, from the Police,”
“The Attorney General per his request assures that he will initiate prosecution against Miss Huang, in respect of her current alleged offences as well as those of 2017 before her deportation from Ghana in 2018,” the Ministry said in a statement.
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