The Supreme Court has ruled that the decision of ex-President John Dramani Mahama to receive the so-called Gitmo 2 into the country was unconstitutional.
In a verdict delivered Thursday, the country’s highest court, by a 6-1 decision, ruled the agreement with the US gov’t contravened Article 75 of the 1992 constitution.
The Supreme Court failed to rule once again on the legality or otherwise of the decision of the former government to accept two former inmates of Guantanamo Bay into the country.
In court today (Wednesday), the justices, after deliberating on the decision, again failed to reach a verdict.
We took two and we were crying – these guys are taking fifteen! It’s the largest prison transfer in Barack Obama’s tenure.
The United Arab Emirates have taken receipt of fifteen former inmates of the US terrorist holding cell on Guantanamo Bay, as Obama continues efforts to empty the prison before he leaves office.
The case in which two citizens are suing the government to know the terms under which Ghana agreed to accommodate two ex-inmates of the notorious US prison base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has made some progress with a new ruling.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that the agreement be produced by government for lawyers of the two plaintifs, Margaret Bamful and Henry Nana Boakye, to scrutinise – overriding government’s concern that releasing the documents would compromise state secrets.
On the conversation of the sort of threat Ghana faces as a country after it emerged that the West African country has signed a deal with the United States to house two Al-Qaeda linked Guantanamo Bay prisoners, GhanaCelebrities.Com has been speaking to several experts of National Security and Military intelligence.
One of such experts is a British Military officer of Ghanaian descent, who has served in Jordan and other unstable countries under the British Army—and he simply says, it’s not a laudable idea for Ghana to be playing with fire this way.
According to the London based officer who agreed to speak to us under the cloak of anonymity, Ghanaians need to press for hard answers—especially when it comes to the sort of security details concerning the movement of these two Al-Qaeda linked prisoners; Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Al-Dhuby.
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He said “For the United States to have arrested and detained these two people for close to 14 years, they had intelligence at the time that they were dangerous and therefore no one can rule out the fact that these two could still be dangerous.
Of course the United States needs more to convict or keep holding them and it could simply be that they are unable to obtain this to a satisfactory level—hence the necessity to resettle them. So Ghanaians should be asking, what intelligence was used to first arrest and detain these two prisoners.”
The government of Ghana has agreed, on our behalf, to house some former inmates of the notorious US military base at Guantanamo.
This was at the request of the US Government, who claim the two citizens were cleared of any wrongdoing, but cannot return to Yemen, where they hail from.
