Deportation of a US Public Affair Officer

Accra The Government has asked that the U.S. Public Affairs Officer, Mr. Nicolas Robertson, should leave the country for activities unacceptable from a diplomat."

The acting foreign minister Kwamena Ahwoi said today that the government had reason to believe that Mr. Robertson had a personal agenda unrelated to his mandate as director of the U.S. Information Service (USIS).

The state-owned Graphic said Mr. Robertson attempted to "blackmail" former Information Minister Kofi Totobi Quakyi over the trial of editors of two private newspapers for criminal libel over a story claiming that government members were dealing in drugs to buy arms,. The story was culled by the Free Press and Ghanaian Chronicle from the U.S,-based African Observer.

And this is what the Graphic had to say on 21 May 1997