Former Member of Parliament for North Dayi, George Loh has revealed that the United States (US) gave Ghana government an amount of US$300,000 to cater for the two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees for their two years stay in Ghana.
Speaking on Citi FM's News Analysis programme The Big Issue , George Loh clarified  that the stay of the two in Ghana does not put any financial burden on Ghana government because the US government had sorted that out in addition to security surveillance.
 His explanation follows Ghana's  Supreme Court ruling on June 22 that declared that the admission of two former Guantanamo Bay detainees by the previous government was unconstitutional.
The two, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, from Yemen who had been detained for 14 years by the US government over their links to the Al-Qaeda terrorist group, arrived in the country last year after negotiations with the then John Mahama administration.
Their arrival sparked public outcry after it emerged that Parliament had no knowledge of it, leading two private citizens, Henry Nana Boakye and Margaret Bamful, who felt the administration had breached Article 75 of the 1992 constitution by not sending the agreement to Parliament for ratification to file a suit at the Supreme Court.
At its sitting on Thursday, the seven-member panel chaired by newly sworn Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, upheld the claim of the petitioners.
The court ruling gave a three month ultimatum to the government of Ghana to either go to parliament  to ratify their stay in Ghana or send them back to the America government.