As the nation continues to brood over the consequences or otherwise of accepting 2 ex Guantanamo bay detainees into the country, a youth group; Youth for Progressive Ghana is giving the government of Ghana one month to take a second look at the bizarre decision or face their wrath.
The group in a statement called on the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament to summon the Foreign Affairs Minister to “explain in detail the transaction between the US government and our government as this transfer of detainees has a serious implications for our national security”.
“If Illinois and it’s surrounding towns with state of the art security system rejected the transfer of this dangerous detainees due to it’s future consequences, how on earth should a country with highly porous borders and prisons, poor security and monitoring systems like Ghana accept this dangerous detainees.”
The group believes the decision is a rather dangerous one for the country’s security especially as Ghana heads for the polls later this year.
“Youth For Progressive Ghana gives the government till the end of this month to review or start the agreements to review this transfer or we hit the streets to protest with our lives and blood, this senseless decision”.
The group says it is resolute in its quest to fight greed, corruption and security threats to the country.
Two ex-detainees of Guantanamo Bay; Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby left for Ghana Wednesday, January 6, 2016. Their transfer is the first of an expected 17 such transfers approved for January, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.
Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby were held for more than 13 years at the detention facility in Cuba. They were unanimously approved for transfer by the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force, according to a Pentagon statement issued Wednesday afternoon.
Please read the full statement here:
8/1/2016
PRESS STATEMENT; ALL MEDIA HOUSES
WE SHALL RESIST OPPRESSORS RULE; Says YPG.
Trust they say is one of the core basis upon which all legitimate and sustainable political systems are built and structured: it is indeed crucial for social cohesion and human well-being. Trust is a vital ingredient for successful policy-making in any decent democracy, as the implementation of many government policies depends on behavioural responses from the public.
In fulfilment of a campaign promise by Barrack Obama the president of the United States of America to close down Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility(a home for deadly criminals and terrorists/ enemy combatants), detainees are being transferred to other prisons in other to ensure the closure of the Detention facility.
A statement issued by Hannah Serwaah Tetteh the Minster Of Foreign Affairs disclosing an agreement made with the US government to transfer two of these dangerous detainees from Guantanamo Prison to Ghana which has been successfully done.
Mohammed Salih Khalid al-Dhuby, 38 and a member Al-Qaeda( a notorious terrorist group), Yemeni Mahmud Umar Mohammed bin Atef, 36. This two terrorist where captured in Afghanistan in 2001.
Government unilaterally took this decision without consulting Ghanaians through the August house of parliament. Citizens where kept in the dark with regards to this deadly transaction.
Youth For Progressive Ghana has gathered evidence that, Illinois Federal Faculty which was abandoned for years was renovated to ensure a successful transfer of Detainees from Guantanamo. However the State Senate and Congress rejected this transfer of Detainees even though it would have created a lot of employment as Illinois is a rural town.
If Illinois and it’s surrounding towns with state of the art security system rejected the transfer of this dangerous detainees due to it’s future consequences, how on earth should a country with highly porous borders and prisons, poor security and monitoring systems like Ghana accept this dangerous detainees.
As we just enter the election year, the security situation going into the general elections tends to be rather fragile and we would not like to exacerbate our already polarized country.
Youth For Progressive Ghana therefore call on the speaker of Parliament to summon the minister of Foreign Affairs to explain in detail the transaction between the US government and our government as this transfer of detainees has a serious implications for our national security.
We the Youth would like to make this loud and clear to the Executives and the Legislature, that, we will uphold and defend this country against greed, corruption and other activities that will bring the security and safety of our country into disrepute.
Youth For Progressive Ghana gives the government till the end of this month to review or start the agreements to review this transfer or we hit the streets to protest with our lives and blood, this senseless decision.
SIGNED:
PRESIDENT:
JAMALUDEEN A. ABDULLAH 0503274762
P.R.O:
OPOKU MENSAH YAW
0242267214
SECRETARY:
BENJAMIN AKOWAAH
0240630802
Operation Director:
FADZINAM ENOCH FENU
0545757776
