[ 2017-05-08 ]

Managing Director of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Kenneth Ashigbey

Galamsey: 'Sex men' must own up – Ashigbey
Individuals in authority entrusted to fight
galamsey who have been caught up in the Chinese
sex video blackmail must reach out for help,
especially with the leadership of the media,
before it becomes too late, Managing Director of
the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL),
Kenneth Ashigbey, has urged.

Mr Ashigbey, who is leading a media coalition to
end galamsey and its adverse effects in the
country, made the appeal to officials caught in
the scandal in an interview with Moro Awudu on
Class FM’s Executive Breakfast Show,
emphasising: “We all make mistakes and it is
better to stand up and say: ‘I made a mistake in
this issue.’ There are times criminals are used
as prosecution witnesses and then they would be
pardoned for what they have done”.

He was reacting to comments by the editor-in-chief
of the New Crusading Guide, Kweku Baako Jr, who
made claims that some “powerful people” and
stakeholders who are supposed to fight the
galamsey menace are unable to do so because they
are being blackmailed by powerful Chinese women
they have had sex with.

Mr Baako’s comment follows the arrest of four
Chinese workers by officers of the immigration
service on a galamsey concession at Bepotenten in
the Amansie Central district.

The concession, according to reports, belongs to
one Chinese woman called Asia Huang, also known as
Aisha.

Reacting to the development on Newsfile on Multi
TV on Saturday 6 May, Mr Baako said the Chinese
had video and audio recordings of her sexual
escapades with big men both within the previous
and current administration and was, therefore,
untouchable.

According to him, Aisha brings into town other
Chinese girls to have sex with some “big men”
in the country, hence their inability to arrest
her for engaging in galamsey.

He told show host Samson Lardy Ayenini: “This
particular Chinese woman, I have it on record, was
arrested three times during the previous
administration and three times she was released.
She is a very powerful woman who operates more
within the Ashanti Region, especially Kumasi.
She’s got connections from my own checks also in
this administration. She appears to be a very
smooth operative.

“She’s built a network across the political
divide. She’s got her agents placed in state
institutions particularly the security agencies
and she’s able to wriggle herself out of danger
or trouble anytime she’s touched. I hope it
doesn’t happen this time round.

“…She’s got accomplices – the other one is
called Monica, the other the name has slipped me
because it’s a Chinese name. Part of their
strength is that they built up a certain system of
blackmailing. They are women so I’m not going to
use certain words, I’m not going to say certain
things. As to when they came into town, what they
intend to do, who they were, what they were, had
nothing to do with galamsey, but gradually they
moved from that particular trade into galamsey.

“They have video and audio recordings of people
who are powerful, videos of people who we have
entrusted with responsibilities to protect us as a
people. That’s how dangerous the game is and
that is where the strength and power of these
Chinese women are coming from.”

Asked what the videos contain, Mr Baako said:
“They have them in videos containing sex. They
have video and audio recordings of their
conversations with some strategically placed
persons from then and now and some they are having
sex with. Also, they have girls, some mainly
Chinese who they brought into town to sleep with
these big men well placed and they use it to
blackmail our big men into submission.”

Mr Ashigbey stated that he does not have any of
such tapes or evidence to back the claim “but
for anybody who would be blackmailed in this quest
you should note that you cannot succumb to the
whims of people blackmailing you because
blackmailing itself is criminal”.

For him, the best place anyone caught in that web
could turn to is the leadership of the media
fraternity, adding: “Once you shine light on
something that is dark, there is no way that it
will survive.”

He emphasised that once the media get hints of
such engagements, they will investigate to expose
the matter and the people involved, so it would be
better to seek help.

“Once we the media get to know anything, we will
follow it to the logical conclusion and start
asking questions. So, definitely, you will be
caught somewhere so I am praying that for anybody
who has got something to do with enforcement of
laws, don’t allow anybody to blackmail you,”
he reiterated.

Source - classfmonline.com

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