An Accra Circuit Court has remanded into custody 4 Chinese nationals, including ‘Galamsey queen’, Aisha Huang for their alleged involvement in illegal small-scale mining activities.
Hearing the case Monday September 5, three suspects, Jong Li Huang, Huang Jei and Huiad Hua pleaded not guilty in court to a charge of engaging in sales and purchases of minerals without license.
Aisha Huang, deported in 2018 following her involvement in galamsey activities and has been brought back into the country, is facing charges of engaging in sale and purchases of minerals without license, as well as mining without license.
Aisha Huang’s who appeared in court on Friday could not have her plea heard due to unavailability of a Chinese interpreter and hence remains in police custody.
Aisha Huang was however absent when the case was called.
Presiding judge, Samuel Bright Acquah remanded the suspects into custody to reappear before the court on September 14.
Source: 3news.com
In other news: Some have their Ghana cards but are waiting to see what we’ll do- NCA on blocking sims
The Deputy Director for Consumer and Corporate Affairs Division at the National Communications Authority (NCA), Mr Kwame Gyan has explained why the Authority has started punitive measures before the deadline of the sim card re-registration which is September 30, 2022.
According to him, although some people have Ghana cards, they are just waiting to see what the NCA will do next.
He also observed that some have their Ghana cards and started the first stage of the registration but complete it after another deadline was given.
The deadline for the sim card re-registration exercise was extended to September 30, 2022, following public outcry.
The deadline for the sim card re-registration should have ended on July 31, 2022, but due to the delay in the issuance of the Ghana card which is linked to the sim card registration exercise, many Ghanaians including Civil Society called for further extension while others proposed the end of 2022 as the deadline.
The Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu Ekuful who announced this said, “Upon consultation with the industry and in view of the challenges enumerated above, I have very reluctantly decided to grant a conditional extension. The programme will be extended to 30th September to end on the anniversary of its commencement.”
“That will give us one full year of SIM registration. It will be reviewed at the end of this month and any SIM that has not been fully registered by the end of August will be barred from receiving certain services including voice and data services,” she said.
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