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Inspector General of Police (IGP) James Oppong-Boanuh led the deployment of armed police to provide escort services to tomato traders and transporters who travel to neighboring Burkina Faso to import the goods.
It comes after the Association of Tomato Traders and Transporters declared a strike over lack of concern for the safety of its members.
He had complained of attacks on his members by thieves on the Ghana-Burkina Faso highway.
There were concerns that the strike could lead to a shortage of tomatoes.
The Association said seven of its members were robbed and shot in less than three weeks as they returned from Burkina Faso with tomatoes.
However, two of them died as a result of the attacks, forcing traders and carriers to go on strike over safety concerns.
Ashanti Regional Police Deputy Commander DCOP David Agyeman Adjem, who met with traders on behalf of the Inspector General of Police in a Citi News maintenance assured of police support.
“The IGP sent me through the regional commander to give them a message… the IGP wants me to assure them that he has already deployed men on this highway and that we should also give them escorts when ‘they take the highway. ”
DSP Adjem also said police were exploring possible military support for the police escorting the tomato trucks.
Association management welcomed the intervention and said it would meet to decide when to end the strike.
“I’m very happy today because the rate at which they were robbing us was unprecedented,” Eric Osei Tuffour, the Association’s national president, told Citi News.
He added that following a meeting with the police in the next two or three days, “the escort will take off, then we will call off the strike.”
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— citinewsroom
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