Mahama gave Gitmo 2 passports, wives – Majority Leader

It has emerged that Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) government issued passports to the two alleged hardcore terrorists from Yemen who were deported from the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay on the orders of President Barack Obama.

They were also given wives, allowing them to integrate into the Ghanaian society.

Majority leader in parliament and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, said on radio yesterday that the NDC government even went to the extent of trying to change the names of the two former Al-Qaeda terrorists – in the persons of Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby – as they continue to stay in the country and that records were there to prove that attempt.

According to him, the name change was even done way ahead of the expiry of the two-year agreement that President Mahama and his then foreign minister signed with the erstwhile Obama administration.

Mr Kyei-Mensah Bonsu also said that Mahama’s administration surreptitiously granted the two – who according to US authorities, were Osama Bin Laden’s foot soldiers – refugee status before the expiry of the two-year agreement.

He said one of them is married to a Moroccan but has vowed never to go to the Maghreb country for reasons best know to him.

The majority leader further said that per the agreement, the over $300,000 released by the Obama government to Ghana under the deal covered the terrorists up to the two-year duration they had to be in the country.

He added that with the expiration of the agreement, the people of Ghana are the ones footing the bills for the two guys whom the US security intelligence said were dangerous.

Source: dailyguideafrica.com