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After getting the sack, Akanga tried to set up a regional newspaper, the Weekly Post, but its maiden issue was confiscated and its licence revoked. A friend tipped him off that his arrest was imminent - on suspicion of being a spy - and he managed to flee. Fifteen years on, he is now a British national and lawyer.