Court Chases Galamsey Queen’s Sureties -Daily Guide
The Chinese influence and impact on Galamsey in Ghana cannot be over emphasised. I am pretty sure apart from the fact that if any Ghanaians dares go to China to go destroy their environment they, they will not only just not, get visas to enter, they will all be arrested tried and sentence to death and killed. The citizens of China will themselves jump on them and beat them up before they are arrested by the police. Check out how this African brother is beaten by a Chinese mob
I am sure by now my brother Edward Boateng, H.E the Ambassador will have been hurled by now to appear before some Chinese government officer and told off. If you ask me, we are treating the Chinese with kid gloves, apart from the 1st Deputy Speaker who told the Chinese Ambassador in the face that they were destroying our lands, and the Mr. Peter Amewu, the Hon Minister of Lands and Natural Resources. Our Polictical authorities have not been as upfront as we the citizens will expect them to do. We cannot solve the galamsey meanence without confronting the Chinese factor. We need to deal with them as strongly as this crisis demands. However you and I know that these Chinese people cannot come into our country destroy our lands if some of us, greedy ones are not allowing them. We as Ghanaians are complicit in the destruction of our own country. Read another of the long drawn out trials of some Chinese arrested for the destruction of our environment.
State prosecutors in the trial of Aisha Huang, a Chinese national and her four accomplices at an Accra High Court over their alleged involvement in illegal mining (galamsey) in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, are on the heels of those who stood as sureties for the accused persons.
The five accused persons, who were arrested in Kumasi, were transported to Accra to face trial.
She was granted bail by the court in June 2017 in the sum of GH¢500,000 with two sureties to be justified.
The four others: Gao Jin Cheng, 45; Lu Qi Jun 39; Habin Gao, 26 and Zhang Pen, 23; were also granted bail in the sum of GHȼ500,000 with one surety each who must be a Ghanaian by birth.
Each surety is to be justified.
The four have, since the grant of bail, been playing hide and seek with the court as they have always come up with one excuse or the other as to why they could not be present for the trial.
The court has since remanded one of them – Gao Jin Cheng, who has repeatedly avoided coming to court without reason.
The prosecution is also making an effort to locate another – Lu Qin Jun whom a bench warrant was issued against for his failure to show up for the trial.
Appearing before the court, presided over by Justice Charles Ekow Baiden yesterday, Chief State Attorney, Mercy Arthur told the court that they are looking for those who stood sureties for the accused persons.
This was after the court refused an application by the prosecution to remand the accused persons into prison custody to facilitate the trial.
The presiding judge pointed out that he is not persuaded by the reasons given by the prosecution.
He told the prosecution that they should serve the notice for forfeiture on the sureties before she brings it to the court.
He said they cannot come asking for a bench warrant when they cannot show that the sureties have been served.
He, therefore, urged them to attempt serving the sureties then the bailiffs would prove no service on the sureties.
Justice Ekow Baiden wondered why getting the sureties was proving difficult as they were made to provide their addresses and phone numbers.
He indicated that investigators ought to investigate the background of sureties, adding that it is the responsibility of public officials to investigate their backgrounds and answer to that.
But Ms. Arthur told the court that they do not have a role to play in the execution of bail.
The judge pointed out that those entrusted with the responsibility to implementing the bail must be called for answers.
By Gibril Abdul Razak
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