OPPOSITION IN GHANA
Leader Flees Country (N.Z. Press Association-Copyright) ACCRA, June 30. An Accra Divisional Court today-granted an application for a writ of summons to be served on Dr. K. A. Busia. the Parliamentary leader of Ghana’s Opposition United'Party, who arrived in London last night. The application was made on behalf of Mr Geoffrey Bing, Q.C., Ghana’s Attorney-General, who, acting in his private capacity, has started a civil action Maiming unspecified damages from Dr. Busia for alleged libel. Dr. Busia, who is 45, said when he arrived in London last night, with his wife and four children, that he had fled the country be-, cause the newspapers were calling for his arrest * i' » Dr. Busia who has been ouered the professorship in sociology at Leyden University, and at the Institute of Social Studies at The Hague said Ghana was “rapidly becoming a dictatorship.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28936, 2 July 1959, Page 13
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