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General News on Friday, July 26, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-07-26
One of the two trucks seized by the police
The Yeji Police Command in Pru East District, East Bono Region, seized two fertilizer trucks for the Plant for Food and Jobs program and headed for Burkina Faso.
The two Man Diesel trucks registered under the numbers AS 5946 U and GT 948 J have taken the Yeji road to Burkina Faso.
Each of the two trucks would contain about a thousand fertilizers for the Planter program to feed themselves and create jobs.
In an interview with Citi News, Joshua Kwaku Abonkrah, Pru East district chief, said: "Truck drivers have been arrested but have been released on bail."
"The trucks are currently parked at the Yeji Police Station. Peter Minka Boadu, a fertilizer distributor based in Atebubu, who allegedly supplied the fertilizer has not yet been arrested, but the police have opened an investigation into this problem. "
However, the owner of Agyenkwa Enterprise, a Yeji-based fertilizer distribution store, Patrick Odieahun, is currently under the responsibility of the police who participated in the investigation.
This year alone, the southern municipality of Nkoransa, in the Bono East area, and the northern municipality of Asunafo, in the Ahafo region, have all registered missing fertilizers as part of the "Plant for to feed themselves and create jobs ".
Eric Aduamah, City Manager of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture of North Asunafo, is currently under investigation by the police command of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Ahafo following the disappearance of 14,497 fertilizers worth 94 million cedis.
In 2018, fertilizers worth about 600,000 cedis for the Plantation Program for Food and Employment of the Municipality of Sunyani have disappeared from a warehouse belonging to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture of Sunyani.
Seven workers from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Sunyani were placed under investigation by the police.
But a year later, the Bono Regional Police Command still has not completed its investigation into the incident.
Chief Inspector Kingsley Augustin Oppong, commander of the Bono Police Command, told Citi News that the Attorney General had ordered the police to continue the investigation into the incident because the evidence provided so far by the police was not strong enough to serve to prosecute the seven people.
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