The US Embassy has indicated that Ghana’s security is good enough to mitigate any possible threat posed by two former Guantanamo Bay detainees, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby.
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Information Officer Sarah Stealy has told Accra-based Joy FM that the two were transferred to Ghana based on a taskforce assessment from 2009 and 2010.
"The taskforce that met from 2009 to 2010 took into account all of the information we have and the totality of that information determine that the level of threat is small enough, is low enough; that they are not a threat that they can be sent to another country.
"The determination is that they were unanimously approved for transfer...that they can come to Ghana, and that Ghana has the ability, the security measures in place to facilitate moving forward the shutdown of Guantanamo Bay," she added.
According to her, this is part of measures being adopted by President Barack Obama to close down Guantanamo Bay because it has “a brochure for terrorist”.
The two ex-detainees: Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, arrived in Ghana on Thursday January 7, 2016 for a two-year stay as part of a deal reached between the United States of America and the Government of Ghana.