Notorious armed robber, Aryee Aryeetey, aka Ataa Ayi has been compared to Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby – the trio according to Charles Owusu are a threat to any state.
But should Ghana set free Ataa Ayi who is purportedly living a pious lifestyle in prison even though he is serving his 120 years for various armed robbery offences – will the USA house him if the Mahama-led government puts forward a request?
This has been a mind-blowing question posed to the USA government after negotiating with the government of Ghana to accept a two-year stay of Guantanamo ex-detainees who have been described by the foreign media as threat to the US.
President Mahama in defence of the ex-detainees stay after a public outcry asked Ghanaians to show ‘compassion’ for these men who have spent 14 years in Gitmo – “In the Bible, it teaches us to be compassionate.”
Nonetheless, a leading member of the Progressive People’s Party [PPP],Charles Owusu has charged government to also release Ataa Ayi on ‘compassionate’ grounds and in reciprocal seek for just a year stay for him in the Unites State [US].
“Just after his release, President Mahama should negotiate with President Obama and send Ataa Ayi to them. The Americans are more Christian than us [Ghanaians] so I believe they will gladly accept our own terrorist Ataa Ayi,” he said in an interview with Peacefmonline.com.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/Peacefmonline.com/ Twitter: @Washman5/ Instagram: Washman007
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