The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference has called on government to return the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been accommodated in Ghana for about a year now.
The two, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, from Yemen 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.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s judgement, President of the Conference, Reverend Philip Naameh, says the former detainees should be ousted once the Supreme Court has made provision for such a move.
“Once it makes provision for the detainees to be taken back to the country I will support that because there might have been a reason why US did not want the people to come back to the US, so if the ruling of the Supreme Court is that either it goes back to Parliament so that it is legalized or the people are taken to the US.†He told to CitiNews
Reverend Naameh also added that sending the Gitmo 2 is the most logical thing to do.