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“I deported 5,000 illegal Chinese miners” – John Mahama reveals

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Former President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that during his tenure as the president of Ghana, he deported 5,000 illegal Chinese miners.

The NDC bigwig made these claims in an exclusive interview with TV3‘s Alfred Ocansey where he additionally disclosed that Boeing 747s were deployed by the Chinese government then to airlift its nationals back home.

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According to John Mahama, although he deported 5,000 Chinese nationals but that didn’t destroy Ghana’s relationship with China.

“When I was president, we valued the relations with China but if you are a Ghanaian and you go to China and you engage in illegality, they don’t say because of the good relation they have with Ghana, they are going to let you go scot-free.

“You are going to face the full rigours of the law in China and I don’t doubt that there are some of our citizens in jail in China.”

“When I became President I was faced with this same illegal gold-mining.

“I deported almost 5,000 illegal Chinese miners. I didn’t say because of the good relation we have with China, we should allow them to continue to engage in illicit activities and we collaborated with the Chinese Embassies, they got 747s and they came and took their nationals away.

“It didn’t destroy our relationship.”

John Mahama’s comments follow the wake of fears expressed by some Ghanaians about the prosecution of popular Chinese galamsey kingpin Aisha Huang, who is standing trial at an Accra Circuit Court for engaging in illegal mining.

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