Accra: Agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation are in Ghana to find out about the sojourn in the country of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner, a Ghanaian minister said.
"The investigation will allow the FBI agents to gather more information on the suspect's stay in Ghana," Deputy Information Minister James Agyenim-Boateng told AFP.
He did not say when the FBI team arrived in Ghana and how long the agents plan to stay in the west African country.
It is Ghana's first known official comment on the allegations by Nigerian authorities that the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, arrived in Lagos on December 24 on a
Virgin Nigeria flight from Ghana.
Agyenim-Boateng said Abdulmutallab flew in to Ghana on December 9 on an Ethiopian Airlines flight out of Addis Ababa where he was believed to have connected from Dubai.
On his immigration form in Ghana he stated a Dubai address. Although he gave one hotel name as his address in Accra, he checked into a different one, said the minister refusing to give names of the hotels.
Nigerian Information Minister Dora Akunyili had said on Thursday that the suspect, after arriving from Ghana, spent less than 30 minutes at the Lagos airport before boarding his
next flight for Amsterdam.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, January 05, 2010, 11:49