{"id":331153,"date":"2017-06-24T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=331153"},"modified":"2017-06-24T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T11:45:16","slug":"dont-bow-to-us-pressure-on-gitmo-2-antwi-danso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/dont-bow-to-us-pressure-on-gitmo-2-antwi-danso\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t bow to US pressure on Gitmo 2 – Antwi-Danso"},"content":{"rendered":"

International Relations Analyst, Dr. Vladimir Antwi-Danso, believes government must be resolute in whatever\u00a0decision it takes on the continuous stay of the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees being hosted by Ghana.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Dr.\u00a0Antwi-Danso stated that \u201cthe government must be firm, not rude and we can get what we want also,\u201d as he advised it not to be intimidated by the United States of America, who shipped the two former detainees to Ghana in January 2016.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”4A6KorR5KNV232EZwIL97fcvI3siXt17″]The continued stay of the two, who are Yemen nationals, has been thrown into question following the Supreme Court\u2019s declaration<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that they were accepted into\u00a0Ghana without recourse to the laws of the land.<\/p>\n

The court, therefore, ordered that the government must within the next three months send the agreement to Parliament for ratification or have the two detainees sent back to the United States.<\/p>\n

Whatever the outcome, Dr.\u00a0Antwi-Danso stressed that the decisions\u00a0government make must be in the interest\u00a0of Ghana and not because of pressure from elsewhere.<\/p>\n

“What we have to do is make sure that foreign policy is not dictated to us, and they will\u00a0still continue to talk because these things are always done\u2026 diplomacy is such that you try to veer your opponent to your bidding and that is what they are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Supreme Court judgment on the detainees,\u00a0comes at a time when the US Embassy clarified laws<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on protocol visa allocations to government officials, including MPs and former Presidents visiting the US unofficially.<\/p>\n

Some Members of Ghana\u2019s Parliament are against this<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by the US and called for a reversal from them or retaliation from the Akufo-Addo administration.<\/p>\n

Dr.\u00a0Antwi-Danso was of the view that this development protocol visa for Ghanaian officials is part of the intimidation by the US because “I think they may have heard about the Supreme Court decision and they may want to sort of intimidate us, and they have been doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously they want bases in Africa. They want whatever else is in Africa and therefore they coerce the government with the denial of aid and so on, and we have been threatened before on the Gitmo 2, and I strongly believe that is not the way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the government’s comments on the two former detainees, it has said it is taking \u201cprompt\u201d steps to deal with the Supreme Court\u2019s orders concerning the continued stay of the two.<\/p>\n

The two detainees, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby were under detention in US custody for 14 years after being linked with terrorist group Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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