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1,000 bags of PFJ smuggled fertilizer enroute to Burkina Faso intercepted

Over 1,000 bags of 50 kilograms fertilizer meant for government’s planting for Food and Jobs that were being smuggled into neighbouring Burkina Faso have been intercepted at the Paga border. According to Upper East Regional Minister, Madam Paulina Patience Abayage the arrest follows a tip off by the Bureau of …

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Navrongo: Police intercepts 2k bags of diverted PFJ fertiliser

The Kasena-Nankana Municipal Police command in the Upper East Region has impounded two truckloads of subsidised fertiliser meant for the government’s flagship Planting for Food and Jobs programme.The first of the two trucks with registration numbers GT 2981-09 and AS 928- 13, each loaded with 1,000 bags of the diverted …

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3 detained over missing 4,000 bags of fertilizer

Three people, including an agric director, have been arrested in the Sunyani West District of the Bono Region for allegedly stealing 4,000 bags of fertilizer meant for the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ). They are Gilbert Sonkpi, district agric director; Owusu Banahene, district desk officer for PFJ; and a …

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