{"id":653246,"date":"2019-07-09T17:28:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>The fuel, the van and some Immigration Officers<\/strong><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Akanu Sector\nCommand of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has intercepted 150 gallons of\nfuel being smuggled into the country over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p"},"modified":"2019-07-09T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T17:28:57","slug":"immigration-officers-chase-fuel-smugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/09\/immigration-officers-chase-fuel-smugglers\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Officers Chase Fuel Smugglers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The fuel, the van and some Immigration Officers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Akanu Sector<br \/>\nCommand of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has intercepted 150 gallons of<br \/>\nfuel being smuggled into the country over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The substance<br \/>\nwhich is suspected to be diesel and kept in gallons popularly referred to as<br \/>\n\u201cKufour Gallons\u201d was intercepted along unapproved routes between Zukpe and<br \/>\nGali-Dzafe near the Akanu Joint Border Post in the Ketu North Municipality of<br \/>\nthe Volta Region.<\/p>\n<p>A three-man patrol<br \/>\nteam of the GIS intercepted the consignment last Saturday, July 6, 2019 at<br \/>\nabout 4:30am, the Akanu Sector Commander, Chief Superintendent Attoprah Godson<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Daily Guide<\/em><\/strong> understands that a gallon can take about 25 litres of diesel at<br \/>\nGHC5.50p on the legal market and GHC3.80p on the black market per<br \/>\nlitre.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He explained that<br \/>\nacting upon orders from his regional command; he put his men on high alert<br \/>\nincluding patrols. On the dawn of that fateful Saturday, his men intercepted a<br \/>\nblue Ford van with registered number AS-4077-U believed to have been smuggled<br \/>\nfrom Lybia through to Nigeria to neighbouring Togo and then to Ghana. From<br \/>\nTogo, the suspects who are now at large used unapproved routes till they were<br \/>\narrested.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Samuel<br \/>\nAmpofo who led the team said after arresting a motorbike rider who led to the<br \/>\narrest of the van driver, the two fled into nearby bushes as they were being<br \/>\ninterrogated. Since he and his colleagues were unarmed, chasing the duo into<br \/>\nthe hostile and isolated bushes would have been dangerous.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to their<br \/>\nescape, the driver who said he had been asked to deliver the consignment to<br \/>\nsomeone in Akatsi admitted he was unfamiliar with the route.<\/p>\n<p>The Volta Regional<br \/>\nCommander of the GIS, Peter Cleaver Nantuo Esq also narrated that he had<br \/>\nintelligence that \u201ca petroleum product especially from Togolese side was<br \/>\ncoming into the country so I alerted all my men to intensify patrol especially<br \/>\non unapproved routes and low and behold this was the outcome of the positive<br \/>\nefforts of my men\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He observed that<br \/>\n\u201cdespite the limited logistics, my men are able and capable\u201d and<br \/>\nwarned persons with the intention of engaging in illegal acts along the<br \/>\nfrontiers to desist from them. He also called on residents to assist \u201cwith<br \/>\nvolunteering information to us, we will not sell them out because if Ghana is<br \/>\ngood it is good for us all\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also encouraged continuous collaboration between his outfit and other sister security agencies to secure Ghana\u2019s borders and improve the economy. At the time of filing this report, plans were far advanced to handover the van and its content to the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Fred Duodu, Ho (k.duodu@yahoo.com<em>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fuel, the van and some Immigration Officers The Akanu Sector Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has intercepted 150 gallons of fuel being smuggled into the country over the weekend. The substance which is suspected to be diesel and kept in gallons popularly referred to as \u201cKufour Gallons\u201d was intercepted along unapproved routes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":653247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Immigration Officers Chase Fuel Smugglers - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/09\/immigration-officers-chase-fuel-smugglers\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Immigration Officers Chase Fuel Smugglers - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The fuel, the van and some Immigration Officers The Akanu Sector Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has intercepted 150 gallons of fuel being smuggled into the country over the weekend. 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