{"id":331229,"date":"2017-06-24T15:13:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=331229"},"modified":"2017-06-24T15:13:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T15:13:19","slug":"about-300000-being-used-for-gitmo-2s-upkeep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/about-300000-being-used-for-gitmo-2s-upkeep\/","title":{"rendered":"‘About $300,000 being used for Gitmo 2’s upkeep’"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Member of Parliament, George Loh, has revealed that about $300,000 was proposed and contributed by the United States for the upkeep of the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees being hosted in Ghana for two years.<\/p>\n
Speaking on The Big Issue<\/strong>, he disclosed that, “the amount is available\u00a0to ensure that they are catered for\u201d but stressed that \u201cit is not an amount that has been given to them to pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”cnmach3QtnJiWK3i2cqeBGH1HTmTcAnl”]”There was an amount that was agreed for the upkeep or an amount that was proposed from the US for the upkeep of the two, and that is not something that we are disbursing as a country. We are making sure that they get everything they want.\u201d<\/p>\n Without disclosing much, Mr. Loh\u00a0said\u00a0of the amount: “I think it is about $300,000…the agreement is just for two years.”<\/p>\n The former Guantanamo Bay detainees were transferred to Ghana in January 2016, when they were deemed to be of\u00a0minimal risk to national security to the US.<\/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