The government of Ghana has vowed to deal with editors of the Africawatch magazine over a publication on the Oslo Scandal.

Describing the publication as “baseless, libelous and scurrilous”, government accused the editors of the magazine of setting an anti-Akufo-Addo agenda to smear the NPP administration with corruption.

The publication by Africawatch magazine titled: ‘The Inside Story of the Oslo Scandal: Conspiracy to Steal’ indited President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Mrs Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey in the controversial Oslo deal.

The publication accused the Akufo-Addo-led government of malfeasance in the purchase of a property in Oslo, Norway for use as Ghana’s embassy.

Reports suggest that the government had inflated the price of the property.

The Minority in Parliament alleged that the property was purchased at a cost of $12.1 million instead of $3.5 million.

Responding to the Africawatch magazine publication on the matter, the government, in a statement signed by Mr Eugene Arhin, Director of Communication at the presidency, said: “The allegations in the publication are baseless, libellous and scurrilous and contains nothing but manufactured lies.”

“We are aware of this magazine’s notoriously established agenda of defaming the president through the deliberate publication of false stories about him. The agenda will fail as it has failed before,” the statement added.

The statement also added that it will deal with the publishers, editors and distributors of the publication at the appropriate forum.