AUSTIN, Texas, -- Sam Kambo, the Sierra Leone native and former coup leader, says he has had it with the United States and is going back to Africa.

Kambo, his wife and their four U.S.-born children are leaving Austin, Texas, for Ghana because, he says, the U.S, government won't let him earn a living here.

He says the government won't give him permission he needs to work legally despite the fact that an immigration judge and an immigration appeals board said he did not take part in a mass murder following a civil war in his home country.

Kambo says he chose Ghana because it's one of the 16 West African countries he can go to without visa restrictions and it has good schools, the Austin American-Statesman said.

Kambo, who moved to Austin in 1994 to study at the University of Texas under a U.N.-sponsored program, earned degrees in electrical engineering and an master's degree in finance. He worked as an energy analyst at the Lower Colorado River Authority until he was jailed in San Antonio in October 2006 on the atrocities charge.