Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said government is being hypocritical in its decision to allow the two Guantanamo Bay ex-detainees to remain in the country as refugees after their two-year stay in the country expired.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, told parliament on Wednesday, 24 January, 2018, that the two ex-detainees, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby have become Ghana’s responsibility as no exit arrangements were originally discussed.
She further argued that, the then Mahama-led government granted the two detainees refugee status therefore, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the status of refugees of 1951 and the 1967 Protocol of the Status of Refugees, as well as the provision of the Refugee Law 1992, PNDC law 305D of Ghana, Ghana has the responsibility to protect them against return to a country where they have a reason to fear persecution.
Government’s position comes after they had strongly opposed the stay of the two men in the country when they were in opposition.
Reacting to this development in an interview with Class News, Mr Ablakwa who is also the Ranking Member on Foreign Affairs committee of parliament said government should apologise to Ghanaians for creating the impression that the two men were a threat to the country security rather than give excuses for them to remain in the country.
He said: “Government of Ghana can revoke refugee status at any point in time. This is just red herring, the issue of refugee status and no exit plan is just red herring. Instead of you to use the sincere route and honest route of coming to Ghanaians, apologising to Ghanaians for haven engaged in politics which you know at the time, then flagbearer of the NPP [Nana Akufo-Addo] was briefed, he was consulted by both the Ghanaian government and the American authorities and yet, he allowed his party leaders to hold press conferences to whip up sentiments against the [Mahama] government to create the impression as if these two were just going to destroy Ghana and there will be so many terrorist attacks but what has happened, where are all the terrorist attacks?
Source: classfmonline.com
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So this boy knows no shame? I pity whoever his teachers were.
THIS BALD-HEADED GUY IS MAKING A LOT OF NOISE IN THIS COUNTRY PAAAOOOO.
Read theUnited Nations Convention on the status of refugees of 1951 and the 1967 Protocol of the Status of Refugees, as well as the provision of the Refugee Law 1992, PNDC law 305D of Ghana, and proffer your solution to the issue. Simplicita!!
LOOK AT THIS EDIOT.YOUR HEAD LIKE A MONKEY.LIAR.YOU HAVE LIED EVEN THROUGH YOUR EDUCATION.WHO BROUGHT THOSE GUYS INTO THE COUNTRY? FOOOLLLL BOY.
The mp did not even know what is even going on during the time of their regime.
John Mahama and his Fr. Ndc gov't appointees should rather apologized to us Ghanaians, for 1ying to us by not telling us that they the NDC gov't have already given this GTIMO people refugee status and they also 1ied to the Court when the Occupy Ghana took the NDC gov't to Court.They hide this information from the Court and the Ghanaian people that they NDC gov't have already have given the two concrete grounds to stay in Ghana. Incompetent, Evil minded JM and his Ndc people.
look this ediot, you people behave like you are too wise but you rather expose your ssttupidity, kwashia buuuuului this guy was dodgy with the questions pose to him by sefa kaye this morning and you expect npp to apologize to who? nansis ediot with sharpp teeth
Nansis.. Sammy dont think you are wiser than anybody.you say NPP should revoke their refugee status and the question is ...why did your NDC give them that refugee status in the first place?? have you read the protocols and conventions governing refugees? and why didnt NDC come out with an exit plan for them when they were signing the agreement in the first place
This boy is a fffooolísh boy and a pathological liar,you were struggling to answer questions posed to you by safa kayi this morning and you are hear saying what? Ofridzato your days are numbered in parliament,you just irritate me each time I see your albino face.