The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is accusing Aisha Huang of being a financial backer for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
According to the party’s Deputy General Secretary, Dr Peter Boamah Otukonor, the NPP administration’s incapability to confront Aisha Huang directly illustrates a level of tacit support.
This adds to the never-ending controversy surrounding the illegal mining suspect’s case.
Prosecutors told an Accra High Court on Wednesday that the lady managed to sneak out of the country.
However, the NDC believes the ‘galamsey’ suspect has a card up her sleeve, which is why the government appears to be having difficulty convicting her.
“All of a sudden the President is playing dumb and saying that he doesn’t know that the woman has been deported, and I think it is becoming one too many and becoming a worrying trend,” he explained on Thursday.
He spoke on the sidelines of a press conference to reveal the NDC’s executive election schedule.
Otukonor also chastised President Nana Akufo-Addo for asserting that he does not know if either Miss Huang was repatriated or not.
“You have a sitting president, who always says that he is not aware of businesses that he himself has undertaken. The President has issued an executive instrument and he says he is unaware. He has written letters of authority and he says he is not aware… corruption appears under him, everybody’s talking about it, and he says he is not aware. Today, Aisha Huang, he is saying that he is not aware that Aisha Huang was deported. Very soon, he will say that he is not aware he is the president of this country,” he said.
Since Miss Huang’s resurgence, there have been reports that she was involved in the ‘galamsey’ blight throughout the previous NDC administration.
But Dr Otukonor defined this as a disgraceful attempt to rope in the NDC into the latest scandal.
