Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister has hinted that the GITMO 2, who were deported to Ghana from the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay on the orders of former President Barack Obama, have agreed to leave the country.
According to the minister, the 2 suspected terrorists have reportedly reached an agreement with the government of Ghana to send them to a third unnamed country.
Charles Owiredu, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, speaking on Joy FM, said the GITMO 2- Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby – had informed the Akufo-Addo administration to send them to a different country.
He added that negotiations regarding their preferred country had been ongoing.
“So of course, we sought their consent before these negotiations were done,†the deputy minister said.
“Per the laws, the 1951 Convention and 1957 Protocol on Refugees, you would need their consent.
“And so now, you have their consent and they say when you find a country we are ready to leave….. Not as easy as you put. They are aware that government is in negotiation with a third country for them to exit.â€
Meanwhile, majority leader Osei Mensah Kyei Bonsu revealed that government had made plans to transfer them to Morocco but the GITMO 2 refused to leave the country for Morocco because according to them, their colleagues who were sent to that country were maltreated.
“The Moroccans accepted some of their members and according to them, they have not been treated well adding that some of them have even fled from the countryâ€. the Majority Leader revealed.
Mahama changed names of GITMO 2 detainees
Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper last week revealed that the John Mahama regime changed the names of two former Guantanamo Bay detainees being hosted in Ghana to secure passports for them.
Although Abdul Malik Kweku Baako did not disclose the new names given to the 'Gitmo 2' as they have become known prominently in the country, he said it was done "covertly†without recourse to the proper procedure adding, not the entirety of the Ghana Refugee Board was not aware of it.