A Ghanaian lecturer in the United States of America who allegedly failed to declare all foreign currencies on him on his arrival at the Kotoka Airport has had his passport seized and ordered by the security agencies to serve in any of the country’s three universities for five years. After that he will be allowed to return to the U.S.

The Ghanaian Professor Philip Kodjo Quarcoo was told that even though he was educated at the expense of the Ghanaian tax-payer, he had never worked in the country since he graduated from the University of Ghana, Legon over ten years ago.

Professor Quarcoo who had arrived from Dakar, Senegal was alleged to have declared only 67,000 CFA francs at the arrivals hall, but a search of his luggage revealed further currencies of $500 and 30,000 CFA francs in a tin of talcum powder.