Nkrumah Might Be Tried . . .

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 15

Nkrumah Might Be Tried . . .

(N.Z P.A. Reuter —Copyright)

ACCRA, March 11

Ghana's Chief of Police warned today that steps might be taken to bring the deposed President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, back to Ghana to face trial.

Commissioner J. W K. Harley said: "If Nkrumah seeks refuge in a civilised country, he will be extradited and tried in the courts of Ghana.

“But if he takes asylum elsewhere. I consider it my duty to recapture him and bring him to justice.” The Ghanaian police chief told ar group of policemen that to this end he had initiated certain action.

For what he called “obvious reasons.” he could not disclose what this action was. The National Liberation Council has frozen the bank accounts of the former president and his Egyptian-born wife. Mrs Fathia Nkrumah Accounts of ministers and their wives, along with those of other personalities in the regime ousted by a dawn coup on February 24, were also frozen by a council decree. The freezing of these accounts was announced in a decree early yesterday signed by the chairman of the National Liberation Council. Lieutenant-General J. A. Ankrah.

It came into immediate effect.

Breaches of the decree will be punished by fines not exceeding £1250 or two years’ imprisonment, or both.