Following the police aggressiveness to deal with the issue of smuggling in the country and individual sabotaging the government flagship policy planting for food and jobs, Five persons have been arrested by the Somanya police command for transporting over 4,000 bags of smuggled fertilizers meant for cocoa farmers in the Western region.
They were caught at Asomdwoe Krom, a suburb of the Eastern region town, offloading one of the trucks with registration number GM 206-17. The arrest was made in the house of one Patrick Nartey who claims to be a cocoa farmer based in the Western region but has a cocoa farm in Asenisi, a suburb of Somanya.
Four of the suspects are drivers of the impounded articulated trucks carrying the consignments while the other is the receiver. One other driver absconded while the five were detained at the Somanya police cells pending further investigations.
According to the police, when they contacted the transport officer of the company that transported the goods from Tema to Somanya, he could not explain how the fertilizers found its way into a private home in Somanya.
Meanwhile, the receiver of the products, Patrick Nartey – Secretary of Gravel Yard Gye Nyame Nuado Kuo Cooperative denied the allegations of diversion.
The other trucks which were yet to be offloaded at the time of the arrest had registration numbers GM 218-17. GM 219-17. GM 220-17. GM 204-17.
BY: Emmanuel Koranteng |DIKODER.COM|D FM
