The girls and their traffickers were arrested last Sunday upon a tip off Ghana Immigration Service has arrested victims being trafficked alongside four (4) of their leaders at the Aflao boarder trying to move out of the country to Nigeria en-route to Saudi Arabia. Acting Head of Public Affairs for the Immigration service, Amoako Atta … Read more
The Domestic Violence Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of Ghana Police Service has recorded 15 child trafficking cases in the Central Region within the first quarter of 2017 alone. The Central Regional Coordinator of DOVVSU, DSP George Appiah Sakyi disclosed this at the World Day Against Child Labor 2017 in Cape Coast organized by Friends of … Read more
Two personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have been hospitalised after enduring a severe beating at the hands of some residents of Assin-Akropong in the Central Region. They were beaten in a free-for-all fight with residents, Assin Fosu District Police Commander Supt Magnus Sam has confirmed. The two are part of six officers who … Read more
The Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC) has welcomed mass transfers within the Ghana Immigration Service. Some 31 senior officers of the Service were re-assigned from their various regional and district posts on Wednesday. ISODEC believes the shake-up is necessary for plucking financial leakages at the country’s entry and exit points. The Comptroller General on Wednesday … Read more
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has arrested two persons for allegedly attempting to traffick seven girls to Jordan in the Middle East. Courage Boadi, a travel and tours operator, and Michael Akantoganya, a self-styled businessman, were picked up at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) last Monday, as they were facilitating departure formalities for … Read more
Engage Now Africa (ENA), an international NGO committed to ending poverty in Africa has lauded government’s unwavering commitment to fight illegal-mining popularly known as ‘galamsey’ in the country, urging it to use the same zeal to combat modern slavery. Director of End Modern Slavery of ENA, David Kofi Awusi made the call whilst addressing participants … Read more
Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister Joseph Yamin is skeptical about efforts to convict 31-year-old ‘galamsey Queen’, Aisha Huang. In his view, investigations by the police will be an exercise in futility it does not collaborate with the Bureau of National Investigations. Aisha Huang, believed to be deeply engaged in illegal mining in Ghana, was arrested … Read more
Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, under the NDC government, Joseph Yamin, says Aisha Huang, the popular 31–year-old Chinese galamsey guru’s dealings go beyond what she has been arrested for. Aisha Huang, believed to be deeply engaged in illegal mining in Ghana, was arrested earlier in May by the Ghana Immigration Service over her alleged involvement … Read more
The Chinese woman believed to be deeply engaged in illegal mining reacted angrily to the court’s adjournment of the ruling for her application for bail today [Tuesday]. Aisha Huang, whose lawyer moved for the bail application, citing her worsening health, was seen slamming her fists on the seat which she sat on before breaking down … Read more
The Chinese woman accused of being deeply involved in illegal mining in Ghana has reacted angrily to a judge’s decision to adjourn ruling on her bail application. Asia Huang banged her fists in anger and in protest over her continued stay in detention at the Nsawam prisons, Joy News’ Joseph Ackah Blay reported, Tuesday. Huang … Read more
An Accra High Court (Criminal Division) yesterday could not hear the bail application filed by lawyers for the five Chinese nationals, including Aisha Huang who has adopted the local name Yaa Asantewaa – the 31-year-old woman suspected to be one of Ghana’s most notorious illegal miners. The galamsey queen’s hope of being granted bail was … Read more
Five Chinese alleged to be involved in illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, will face charges under the Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act 2015. After taking over the case from the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), the Attorney-General’s (A-G’s) Department will prosecute the five alleged Chinese galamsey operators. They are Gao Jin Cheng, 45, Lu Qi … Read more
45 senior officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have been transferred. They include two Deputy Commissioners of Immigration (DCOI), two Assistant Commissioners of Immigration (ACi), 18 Chief Superintendents of Immigration (C/SUPT.), eight Superintendents of Immigration (SUPT.), 11 Deputy Superintendents of Immigration (DSI) and four Assistant Superintendents of Immigration (ASI). A letter dated May 17, … Read more
An Accra high court has adjourned the hearing of a bail application by Asia Huang, a Chinese lady arrested for illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey. Jerry Akwetey lawyer for Huang and four other Chinese national, prayed the court to grant his clients bail pending a May 23 hearing of the substantive matter. But the … Read more
An Accra High Court has adjourned a bail application by Aisha Huang, a Chinese woman believed to be deeply engaged in illegal mining to May 23, 2017. Aisha Huang was remanded in prison custody alongside four other Chinese nationals after they were arrested by the Ghana Immigration Service and brought to court a week ago. … Read more
An Accra High Court has adjourned a bail application by the Chinese woman believed to be deeply engaged in illegal mining, Aisha Huang. According to the court presided over by Justice Charles Edward Ekow Baiden, it had noticed some inconsistencies in the statement in opposition by the state and directed the lawyers correct them and … Read more
A leaked audio tape purported to have been recorded by assigns of the Chinese galamsey queen, Aisha Haung, has put the Deputy Ashanti Regional Commander of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Chief Supt Peter Adu Appiah, in hot waters. The audio recording, which purports to put the GIS boss in-charge of Enforcement and Intelligence Bureau … Read more
The Second-in-Command at the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) in the Ashanti Region, is in hot waters a recording of a conversation between him and two other men regarding notorious Chinese illegal miner, Asia Huang, leaked. Chief Supt Peter Adu Appiah, who is also the Head of Enforcement and Intelligence Bureau at GIS in the Ashanti … Read more
Ghanaian public officials are fond of quoting Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist to literally beg for more aid, anytime donor agencies give money or items to help facilitate their operations. This was the case when the European Union (EU) donated vehicles, IT equipment and other items worth about GHc 2.3 million to help manage the country’s … Read more
Ghanaian public officials are fond of quoting Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist to literally beg for more aid, anytime donor agencies give money or items to help facilitate their operations. This was the case when the European Union (EU) donated vehicles, IT equipment and other items worth about GHc 2.3 million to help manage the country’s … Read more