The National Identification Authority (NIA) insists it should not be held responsible for notorious galamsey queen Aisha Huang’s possession of a Ghana card despite her repatriation.
According to NIA’s Executive Secretary, Prof. Kenneth Attafuah, when Aisha Huang [captured on NIA’s system as En Huang] was kicked out of Ghana in 2018, the Ghana Immigration Service did not return the non-citizen card issued to her as required by law.
He claimed that this prevented the NIA from flagging her name in its database.
“When Aisha Huang was repatriated, the Ghana Immigration Service did not give us her card.” There is no Aisha Huang on the national identity register. Nobody has ever registered with the name Aisha Huang. It could be someone’s nickname or pet name, but it’s not a name in our database.”
“The cards that Immigration gives us are cards of people who have gone through the judicial process and have been found to have violated the laws of the Republic of Ghana and are deserving of deportation or repatriation, depending on the situation.” The Ghana Immigration Service takes custody of their cards, facilitates their exits, and then returns the card to NIA custody as required by law.”
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He stated that in this case, the NIA is aware of En Huang, but they did not receive her ID card as required by law.
“Immigration has not given us En Huang’s card, and I suspect this is because she did not get to the attention of the Immigration and judicial processes on the occasion she came to our attention.” If that were the case, I am confident that the Ghana Immigration Service would have taken appropriate action,” Prof. Attafuah stated.
Because this process was not followed, the NIA Executive Director stated that when En Huang attempted to renew her identification, there was no suspicion because “she was being a lawful foreigner resident in our country.”
Prof. Attafuah believes this is why she was discovered with an updated Ghana Card when she was arrested again earlier in September.
Following her re-arrest for illegal mining activities in the country despite her deportation, Aisha Huang was discovered to be in possession of a Ghana Card bearing the name Huang En.
The NIA previously stated that the particular registration was done in 2014 under the name Huang En and was renewed in 2016 and 2018 in Kumasi, explaining the viral Ghana card image suggesting that the suspected illegal miner was given the Ghana card.
It claimed that in August 2022, a Chinese national tried to register a new non-resident Ghana card under the name Ruixia Huang, but the system flagged it because the biometric details matched those of Huang En.
She is currently on trial alongside four other Chinese nationals.
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