The Yilo Krobo Police Command has arrested six people for allegedly smuggling 4,000 bags of fertiliser meant for the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs programme at Ogorme, a suburb of Somanya, Eastern Region.
The fertilisers are believed to be meant for cocoa farmers in Samreboi in the Western Region.
This comes three weeks after the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) revealed that six of its Border Patrol Officers refused to accept a GHS25,000 bribe from some smugglers and arrested two truckloads of smuggled fertilisers diverted from the same programme in the Upper West Region to be sold in neighbouring Burkina Faso.
A total of 1,950 bags were retrieved from the trucks en route to Burkina Faso via the Fielmo unapproved route in the Sissala West District.
The truck was intercepted upon a tipoff.
Source: Ghana/ClassFMonline.com
Somanya: 6 busted for smuggling 4,000 bags of PFJ fertiliser
