The alleged contraband of PFJ fertilizer is not a problem – responsible for the MoFA

General News of Saturday, July 27, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-07-27

Seth Osei Akoto, director of crop services at the Ministry of Agriculture, said the trucks loaded with fertilizer for the program Plant for Food and Employment in Pru East District and intercepted can not yet be considered as smugglers.

The trucks were reportedly transported to Burkina Faso with a thousand bags of fertilizer for the Planter program to feed and create jobs in Yeji.

The destination of the trucks was supposed to be Yeji, according to their roadmaps.

Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Akoto, the two trucks were not yet beyond Yeji and therefore questioned the suspicions of smuggling.

"When I checked, the goods did not go through Yeji. We can not therefore say that the goods are smuggled beyond Ghana to Burkina Faso. for me in particular, I do not think it's a problem.

When they are in the Bono Est area and they have not even crossed Savanah, why do you conclude that they are sending fertilizer to Burkina Faso? "

The fertilizer is distributed by private companies that engage various transportation companies.

The owner of Agyenkwa Enterprise, a Yeji – based fertilizer outlet, Patrick Odieahun, is currently in the hands of the police who is participating in the investigation.

The problem of smuggling

Until now, in 2019, Nkoransa South in the Bono East area and Asunafo North in the Ahafo region have all recorded missing fertilizer incidents as part of the "Plant for Food" program. and create jobs. "

Eric Aduamah, City Manager of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Asunafo-North, is being investigated about the disappearance of 14,497 fertilizer bags of one value of 946,000 GHC.

In 2018, a warehouse belonging to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture disappeared, which resulted in the loss of about 600,000 GHC fertilizer in the Planting for Food program Sunyani Jobs.

Seven workers from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Sunyani were placed under investigation by the police.