A Director of Faculty of Academic Affairs & Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre has alleged that 'galamsey' kingpin Aisha Huang and her accomplices are Chinese state agents who are on a mission to destroy Ghana’s cocoa sector.

According to Professor Kwesi Aning, these Chinese nationals aim at destroying the country’s water bodies which will to an extent have an effect on the quality of cocoa produced in the country.

The move, he claimed will give China, which now produces cocoa, an advantage.

He made these assertions when he spoke on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Wednesday.

“If you go back to 2017 and 2018 escape of Aisha Huang and the argument that she has been released because we were looking for the Syno-Hydro loan and that if she was prosecuted, it would affect the loan, then Aisha is not an ordinary Chinese gangster. She’s an agent of the state. She’s a spy.

“And her expertise is in economic warfare; deliberately destroying our environment and waterbodies through galamsey so that the chemicals can go through the food chain and destroy the cocoa and we know that Japan that loved our cocoa beans is now disturbed because they found traces of chemicals in them,” he said.

He says the state must act tough against Ghanaian nationals who collaborate with the Chinese in these efforts.

“Those who facilitate this are engaging in a treasonable offence because this is about the survival of Ghana and we need to elevate this conversation to an existential threat.”

Meanwhile, National Security has opened a full scale investigation into the Aisha Huang case.

It wants to establish how she entered into the country after her deportation and which individuals aided her. This is according to the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah.

Moreover, the Attorney General has called for the case docket of the galamsey queen and says they will begin prosecution of Aisha Huang for her past and current offences.