[contextly_sidebar id=”kSE97ttEbThTXMjfvhWjIay24aLYXzvc”]\u201cTo put that change on a specific person or a specific deal that the prior government made seems to be inappropriate, and that is what it seems to be happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
He, however noted that, the challenges have persisted since the transfer to Ghana, but couldn’t explicitly say things have gotten worse since the change in government to the current Akufo-Addo administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have somebody that has been detained illegally for as long as he was detained\u2026\u00a0 he necessarily had and will have a difficult time readjusting to a normal life and that was present even prior to the change in government.\u201d<\/p>\n
George Clark has represented Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef since 2015, and has been in contact with his client since his transfer to Ghana in January 2016, to help coordinate between the US and Ghana governments.<\/p>\n
He however said his client is desirous of more freedom in Ghana and wants to “live a regular life”.<\/p>\n
However, the Akufo-Addo administration \u201chas been trying to protect him\u201d in the sense that the government is trying to keep people away from him.”<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that has negative connotations for him, in being able to work and be\u00a0productive and things like that. It is a complicated situation for him,\u201d the lawyer added.<\/p>\n
Bin Atef worried<\/strong><\/p>\n Following the judgment indicating that the Mahama Administration needed the approval of\u00a0Parliament before entering into any international agreement like the case of these two detainees, George Clark said his client was worried about the development, but it is \u201cpremature for him to make a decision as to what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am sure that he is worried about that. Repatriating him to Yemen would be contrary to international law because of the armed conflict in Yemen, so I don\u2019t think that is going to happen,\u201d the lawyer added.<\/p>\n Two Ghanaian citizens sued the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, together with the Minister of Interior, accusing then-President John Mahama of illegally bringing in the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees, without recourse to the laws of the land.<\/p>\n The plaintiffs were seeking, among other reliefs, a declaration that the President of the Republic of Ghana acted unconstitutionally, per Article 75 of the 1992 Constitution, by agreeing to the transfer of\u00a0the two detainees.<\/p>\n![\"ex](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ex-guantanamo-1-1.jpg\")