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General News of Saturday, April 27, 2019
Source: 3news.com
2019-04-27
Aisha Huang popularly known as the queen of Galamsey
Alhaji Haruna Halidu, a member of the communications team of the National Democratic Congress (NEC), said it was unfair for the state to prosecute its own citizens for minor crimes and release foreigners for crimes. serious crimes.
The La District Court and the Automobile Court would have sentenced a Kwame Akyere to two months in jail for nabbing in the central business district of Accra.
The conviction of Akyere comes just days after Prime Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo revealed that the state had ended a case of illegal exploitation of Chinese national Aisha Huang because of diplomatic relations that Ghana was maintaining. with China.
Yaw Osafo Maafo, speaking in front of a city hall in the United States, said that imprisoning Aisha Huang would not have made the Ghanaians or the government happy.
This prompted the NDC Communicator, who was participating in TV3's New Day debate, to question whether the prosecution and conviction of Mr. Akyere made the government happy.
"If pursuing crimes does not make you happy and it serves as a basis for allowing a foreigner to leave this country and your own citizen, do you pursue them, does that make you happy as a government?" He asked.
According to him, the laws of the country must be allowed to work freely and fairly without any form of discrimination.
"We need to ensure that laws are respected when anyone or any citizen mocks the law. That's why we have law enforcement agencies, and we expect every time the law has been flouted, we have to respect the principle of due process and regulate the law. problem.
"So I have no problem with the measures taken by our MMDA, but we must insist that we do it for our own citizens, but we let go abroad because the foreigner holds the stock and we plead for Ghana Beyond help. strange."
Halidu acknowledged that sanitation should be taken more seriously in the country and worried about GH. The government spends $ 200 million on sanitation, which is rather high.
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