AKUFO-ADDO WAS NEVER CONSULTED ABOUT TRANSFER OF GITMO-2 DETAINEES

AKUFO-ADDO WAS NEVER CONSULTED ABOUT TRANSFER OF GITMO-2 DETAINEES

The Office of Nana Akufo-Addo has vehemently denied reports the NPP Presidential Candidate was consulted before the infamous transfer of the two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Ghana.

A statement signed and issued by the Press Secretary to Nana Akuffo-Addo, Eugene Arhin says the new US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Jackson in a meeting with some editors on Friday, April 15, is alleged to have said that the Foreign Minister and US Embassy consulted about informing other stakeholders and so we did talk to Akufo-Addo before the transfer happened; but that is never true.

The statement explained that Nana Akufo-Addo was at no point consulted during the transaction between the two governments, but that it was on January 5, 2016, that the Deputy Chief of Mission/Chargé d'Affaires of the US Embassy in Ghana, then acting as Chief of Mission, Melinda Tabler-Stone, called on Nana Akufo-Addo at his Nima residence to inform him, about the impending arrival into the country of two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al Dhuby, as a result of discussions between the US and Ghana governments.

It added that, the day after this visit, on January 6, it was announced that these Guantanamo detainees had been admitted into Ghana upon the authority of the President of Ghana; and therefore it appears that at the time Melinda Tabler-Stone spoke to Nana Akufo-Addo, the two Gitmo-2 detainees were either on their way to Ghana or had arrived in the country

source:kulenunewsonline