The Ho Sector Command of Customs Division of Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) with help from different safety businesses together with the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Ghana Police Service, Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), and the Ghana National Fire Service has destroyed weed substances suspected to be Indian-hemp and unwholesome items price GHC 9.2 million Ghana cedis.
These substances had been intercepted at varied border posts within the Ho assortment space of the customs division of the GRA.
More than 274 luggage of Indian hemp and unwholesome items together with expired containers of espresso, cigarettes, and cosmetics had been destroyed at Akrofu within the Ho municipality of the Volta Region.
The substances, compressed in slaps, had been hid in fertilizer sacks in an try and outwit safety businesses on the border posts however such tips didn’t work because the safety males began looking. The smugglers bolted into the bush leaving their items and vans behind.
The Ho Sector Collection Commander of GRA Customs Division, Asst. Commissioner (AC) Felicia Adoboe-Azuma stated the train to clamp down on prison actions on the assortment border posts began mid-last yr.
The Sector Commander warned recalcitrant residents within the space who take pleasure in smuggling actions could be handled in keeping with the legislation when caught.
AC Adoboe-Azuma burdened that the safety businesses within the space wouldn’t relent of their efforts to smoke out people who find themselves engaged in cross-border prison actions within the Ho assortment sector.
The Sector Commander stated the command had intensified patrols alongside the varied border posts and would arrest individuals concerned in smuggling actions and prosecute them to function a deterrent to these with related intentions.
She known as on sister safety businesses to make sure that they collaborate with each other to cope with smugglers and different prison operatives and ask leaders of varied safety businesses to withstand makes an attempt by smugglers to bribe them.
The Sector Commander stated the workplace of the Customs Division of GRA is open to all the safety businesses to make sure efficient and environment friendly methods of dealing with smugglers, significantly the recalcitrant ones.
By Robert Abilba
