About 6,400 slabs of suspected narcotic drugs (Indian hemp) has been seized at Atikpui border, in the Volta Region, over the weekend by a joint team of personnel of Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) and the Custom Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
According to the Nyive Sector Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration (ACI) Alhaji Abdulai Zakaria, the consignment, packed in 80 bulky sacks with each containing 80 slabs, weighing about six tons was the largest interception in the region in recent times.
ACI Zakarisa and his counterpart Superintendent Courage K. Amegbe of Operation Calm Life, led a team that last Thursday intercepted the consignment in a dilapidated house under renovation, upon a tip-off.
ACI Zakaria said the sacks containing Indian hemp, were packed in two separate rooms at the location with no sign of any occupants at the time of the operation, for which reason there was no arrest made.
He disclosed the consignment had been conveyed to the main office and, subsequently taken to the Customs warehouse, awaiting further directives from Headquarters.
ACI Zakaria indicated that the consignment was destined for neighbouring Togo.
The Acting Volta Regional Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration (ACI) Noah Ahomka Yeboah, advised drug cartels to stop their illegal business.
He said security agencies were
collaborating efforts to arrest “these undesirable elements in the society.”
AIC Yeboah commended the security agencies, the chiefs and residents of border communities for the collaboration to arrest drug cartels.
BY TIMES REPORTER
