Two Burkinabés on remand for smuggling of fertilizer

Crime & Punishment of Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Source: Dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-07-31

Two Burkinabés are in custody in Bolgatanga Municipality, in the Far East South Region, for their alleged attempt to illegally smuggle more than 1,000 bags of subsidized planting fertilizer into the country. food and employment (PFJ).

The two men were arrested on Sunday, July 28, 2019, around 10:30 pm, in Bolga-Soe, a suburb of the Bolgatanga municipality, as a result of information given by community members who suspected a resident of collaborating with them to smuggle fertilizers.

Their Ghanaian counterpart could not be arrested because he was not present at the scene. Joseph Amiyuure, director general of the Bolgatanga Municipality, led a team of police officers to the Bolga-Soe hideout and arrested them.

According to community members, a truck loaded with over 500 fertilizer bags Planting for Food and Jobs had left the hideout before the police arrived.

Fertilizers were likely to be smuggled to Burkina Faso this Sunday evening.

In addition to the latter case, two other cases had been recorded from early June to mid-July 2019, when fertilizers had been seized in Navrongo and Paga in the Kbadena-Nankana area, following information provided by the community.

A woman arrested in connection with more than 1,000 bags of fertilizer carrying the deliberately lifted Planting for Food and Jobs stickers was released on bail.

In an interview with DGN Online in Bolgatanga, the Upper East East Regional Minister, Tangoba Abayage, said that from now on, anyone will be caught in the act of smuggling subsidized fertilizers. will be sued.