A well-connected and powerful Chinese woman who is into galamsey in the Ashanti Region has been invited for questioning by the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Joy News has learnt.
Asia Hwan alias Aisha, who also identifies herself as Yaa Asantewaa, has been invited in connection with some four Chinese nationals who were arrested over the weekend for engaging in an illegal mining in flagrant violation of a ban on illegal mining by Lands Minister, John Peter Amewu.
Director of Intelligence at Ashanti Regional GIS Bureau, Chief Superintendent, Stephen Adu-Appiah told Joy News their checks revealed Ms Hwan had invited the four men into the country for illegal mining.
“When they were asked about their documents after the arrest, they said their passports are with one Aisha,” he said.
There was pandemonium at the Immigration office in Kumasi when Ms Hwan stormed the premises to demand the release of four Chinese men apprehended for engaging in galamsey.
The four, identified as Gao Jin Cheng, 45, Lu Qi Jun, 39, Haibin Gao, 26, and Zhang Zhi Peng, 23, were apprehended at Bepotenten in the Amansie Central District of the Region by the Obuasi Immigration Command.
Ms Hwan herself is reported to have evaded several arrests for galamsey charges during the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government. She is alleged to have highly placed sources in the NDC and governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Joy News has gathered when the four Chinese were rounded up at their galamsey site, calls were made by some persons who said they were calling from the Flagstaff House to have the men released.
Ms Hwan, a permanent resident in the country since 2015, is said to have arrived at the immigration office in a white Toyota Hilux, with registration number GN 8978-15 to demand the release of the men.
The vehicle had paraphernalia of the Manhyia Palace fitted inside when it pulled up at the office, Joy News has gathered.
The powerful Chinese Yaa Asantewaa is accused of employing crude tactics to acquire and invade lands for her galamsey activities. She has ties in the Ghana Police Service, Immigration Service and Ghana Armed Forces, Joy News sources have disclosed.
Senior Journalist Abdul Malik Kweku Baako said she has video recordings of sexual encounters with powerful politicians and security capos which she uses for blackmail which enables her to wriggle herself out of the claws of the law.
She, is thus, able to take people’s land at will and mine as she pleases because the law is consistently held in abeyance, allowing her to act with impunity and sometimes tacit protection from the police and the military.
Managing Director of the Volta Resources Limited, Edward Koranteng told Kojo Yankson host of Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Monday, Aisha had encroached on the company’s land and mined for more than three years with devasting environmental effect.
“Regardless of the rhetorics in response to our effort [to report her activities], you give her one day; two days [later] she would be back on the same land,” he said. “She literally ignored our overtures.”
Ms Hwan is said to be operating in Amansie Central, Obuasi, Dunkwa and Bepotenten all in the Ashanti Region.
In 2015, the Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) ordered the release of some equipment seized from Ms Hwan during an anti-galamsey operation.
In a letter signed by the Regional Coordinating Director, Enoch Siaw, REGSEC said it did not sanction the operation that was hailed by residents and which led to the seizure.
“When you get to her mining site hours after her arrest, you will see her there,” the reporter said., indicating her level of influence in security circles.
The road leading to her mining site is replete with three checkpoints manned by police officers who are said to act as informants for her. “So any branded vehicle that passes by, they [police] relay the information to them [Ms Hwan and other Chinese miners],” Erastus added.
The reporter said they picked up an information that despite the arrest of the four, illegal mining was still going on at the Beotenten site.
To confirm this for themselves and to avoid tipping off the police who would inform the miners, the reporter said, he and his cameraman rented a wretched taxi and disguised themselves as illegal miners and used a different route to the site.
When they arrived at the scene, some other Chinese and local illegal miners were busy at work, mining, the reporter revealed.
According to Erastus, this was the clearest indication yet of the audacity of Aisha who Kweku Baako said has built a network of influence in high places, using blackmail and payoffs.
-Myjoyonline
Source: myjoyonline.com
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IF WHAT I AM HEARING IS TRUE THAN SHAME UNTO THOSE OFFICERS. THE CHINES WOMAN SHOULD BE JAIL AND AFTER SENTENCE SHE SHOULD BE DEPORTED . WE SHOULD LET THE LAWS OF GHANA WORK
SHOULD THIS CHINESE CRIMINAL WOMAN EVER BE TOLERATED UNDER OUR NOSES?
Its manhyia paraphernalia supplied by otumfuo to his people or its sold. Cant anybody buys some and hang in his car? If u have manhyia paraphernalia, does it meant u relate to otumfuo? Anybody who insults our kingdom and our king will never have peace.
Its only in Ghana A foreigner as matter of fact a Chinese woman can come and have connection in the immigration, the police service as well as top politicians. Ghana is a loose country. Arrest that flat asssssssssss woman and arrange her before court. STOP GALAMSEY NOW...
Stop talking and Arrest that ***barred word*** . Who is Asantehene? If he or any chief is found to have compromise himself he should be arrested. Otumfour or whatever they crown him can't owed the Ashanti region not to talk of Ghana. He is only a custodian of a traditional ***barred word*** stool. I don't understand why top politicians government officials always rushed to him with national issues. Governments must stop taking instructions from this asantehene and the so called chief imam. Ghanaians grow up. Arrest that Chinese bitch as well as her supposed Ghanaian husband. The current Ashantihene ***barred word*** of the people of Ashanti region. How can he sit there and watch the farmlands if the Ashantis distroyed not even by Ghanaian, but a Chinese prostitutes? Ashanti region has a high number of prostitutes can't our chiefs and politicians help them venture into mining too? Farmers in these galamsey areas becoming hopeless just because of these ***barred word*** so called chiefs and kings. Am in hurry for them to be arrested.
THERE ARE NO LAWS IN GHANA: BLACK PEOPLE ARE FUUUUUULS. STOP TALKING. BLACK PEOPLE HAVE N.O S.E.N.S.E AT ALL. THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING IN UGANDA AND ZAMBIA WHERE THERE ARE INFLUX OF CHINESE WITH ACCOMPANYING DESTRUCTION OF THEIR NATURAL RESOURCES. UGANDA IMMIGRATION WAS HEARD SAYING CHINESE ARE MAKING BABIES WITH THE LOCAL POPULATION SO THEIR PRESENCE IN UGANDA IS GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY. BLACK PEOPLE CAN BE BOUGHT AND BRIBED WITH 2 GHANA CEDIS. FOR THE FIRST PLACE HOW DID THESE CHINESE ENDED UP IN GHANA? DON'T WE HAVE IMMIGRATION MINISTER? OR SOMEONE IN CHARGE OF IMMIGRATION? CORRUPT IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS AND SOME POLICE PERSONNEL SHOULD BE BLAMED FOR ALL THE INFLUX OF FOREIGN ILLEGAL MINERS IN THE COUNTRY WITH ACCOMPANYING ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND DESTRUCTION OF OUR WATER BODIES.
Massa; you really hit a raw nerve because history tells us the same ; it was never the slave masters who came and took our ancestors into slavery it was our own evil people the Ciefs who facilitated such trade ;MINE GOD !!!!; to me history is repeating itself again !!!!!!; the Otumfuo Ashantehene by reason of GREED is once again involved in this dirty 'galamasey and and ***barred word*** trade with this chinese lady to rape Ghana again ; Jon Mahama and the NDC sold Ghana to China excavate the gold but nobody will admit to such agreement ; SHAME UNTO YOU OTUMFUO OPUKU WARE -AKA KWEKU DUA !!!!!!ASHANTI LANDS HAVE BEEN SOLD BY THE ASHANTHENE -PERIOD !!!
What??????? Can't we Ghanaians deport that so called Aisha back to where she came from? Are we st*pid or what? You treat a Chinese as a white person? Come on!!!! They are uncivil even than blacks. How can a Chinese be influential in Ghana because of her colour or what? Ghanafuo open your eyes for trash Chinese come to Africa not the intelligent ones. Get them out from the country all those doing illegal activities. How did she get Manhyia sticker on her car? Manhyia should come out to answer and get themselves out of this dirty thing. Ghanafuo paaa! You call a Chinese obroni? We are sick and tired to hear all these stuff from Ghana. Ndc is not good for Ghana, they have no idea of governance and economy, they have no identity so feel inferior and do things basabasa and hazardous.
I'm baffled our leaders in Ghana could look on unconcerned for so many years and let these Chinese to destroy our environment to such a terrible extent! Ask some Ghanaians here, how they are finding it difficult to renew their visas in China, let alone get jobs here to do! Some provinces and cities refuse to renew visas with passports from Africa, then we sit down and let these Chinese have such impunity in our country!
thanks mmmariijata and kfk. u said it all. the paraphernalia is sold on the open market, anyone can buy. we are just too greedy and selfish. they should release the so called videos and the big men helping her to do that, then we can name, shame, prosecute and sack. in Ghana, we talk of evidence but never release them. guilty as those who do it.