0:25 On Jan 13, 2016
The MP expressed this opinion as a result of government’s decision to accommodate two ex-detainees of Guantanamo Bay in Ghana.
In
an interview with Asempa FM’s Kwadwo Asare-Baffour Acheampong on
'Ekosii Sen' Monday, January 11, 2015, the MP said the country does not
have the capacity to monitor the two without any untoward consequences.
“What
equipment, instrument, and logistics does Ghana have to monitor the
activities of the detainees to prevent trouble?” he asked.
“President
Mahama has disappointed me….I am reading something about Haruna
Iddrisu, I don’t know how far that is true… he has spent about
GHS900,000 on foreign trips, but all that aside we live in peace.
“We
are better off under corruption than being involved in this world
crisis, which will bring problem to the people of Ghana,” Mr Agyapong
said.
“We do not have any sophisticated technology to monitor and control their movements,” he stressed.
“My
question to Mahama is: ‘Why are they [the ex-detainees] not in America
if the Americans have cleared them of any acts of terrorism? It’s a
shame.”
Many groups have called on government
to return the two terror suspects who have ties to terrorist groups, Al
Qaeda and the Taliban, to their country.
The
National Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Bernard
Mornah, has said government’s decision to accept the suspected
terrorists is a continuation of the injustice the United States of
America is perpetrating across the world.
International relations expert Dr Vladimir Antwi-Danso has also said it could open up the country to security threats.
Also,
a former presidential advisor in the Kufuor administration, Vicky
Bright, has said Ghana, by accepting the detainees, was importing
trouble to its shores.
Former Deputy Minister for the Interior, K.T. Hammond has said the two should be sent back to Guantanamo Bay.
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