Sydney Casley Hayford, an anti-corruption crusader, says President Mahama ought to\u00a0be sued for accepting\u00a0to host the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees transferred from the United States into the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the President has taken us for granted and somebody is going to sue and has to sue in order to get to the bottom of this whole issue,\u201d Casley Hayford said.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”r4kuiAipavKZgsjdq6YkY2Ggf7c49LDh”]Both Ghana and the U.S governments have sought to allay fears of Ghanaians<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>who believe the two pose a threat to the country\u2019s security.<\/p>\n The Deputy Minister of Interior, James Agalga has told Citi FM<\/strong>\u00a0that government did all the necessary checks before resolving to resettle the two in the country.<\/p>\n But speaking on Citi FM\u2019s<\/strong> News Analysis Programme, ‘The Big Issue’<\/strong>, Casley Hayford \u00a0was convinced that the presence of the two is likely to destabilize the country.<\/p>\n \u201cAnybody who ends up in Guantanamo Bay is no mistake not by any stretch of imagination…America\u2019s singular role for establishing Guantanamo Bay was to be able to capture such persons and give themselves the liberty and the ability to torture them…When you put someone away for such a period time, \u00a0the mental state in which you institute in that person\u2019s mind, he is either going to come out as a broken person or he is going to come out with such resolution that he will repeat whatever he did forever”.<\/p>\n \u201cGod forbid but should these two persons walk into Accra mall and see the open and liberal style in which we allow our women to walk around in a free atmosphere which they abhor and which they consider to be Western bastardisation and contamination of their people and then they start formulating an idea; should they blow themselves up or do whatever is necessary; this country will be destabilized for the rest of time \u201d<\/p>\n Sydney also wondered why issues regarding the two had all of a sudden become government’s priority if they are indeed not a threat to Ghana’s security.<\/p>\n \u201cIf this is not a security risk, if these two people are not security risks and they are not important, then why are we asking our security and interior whatever it is committee in Parliament to debate the matter? If these are low level security issues that are not going to impact on this country then why are we treating it as a security matter? Why is National Security involved? Why is the Interior Minister involved and what should be a simple request to host a couple of people who are suppose to be free and not involved in any terrorism act. Why has it therefore become\u00a0 a security priority which is being debated as such. It doesn’t make common sense to me,” he\u00a0maintained.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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