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The Somanya Police Command in the Eastern Region is to arraign five drivers who were arrested for allegedly stealing fertilizer meant for cocoa farmers at Samarboi in the Western Region.<\/p>\n

The five trucks carrying a total of four thousan"},"modified":"2019-08-21T23:05:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T23:05:05","slug":"police-to-arraign-five-drivers-who-tried-smuggling-fertilizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/21\/police-to-arraign-five-drivers-who-tried-smuggling-fertilizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Police to arraign five drivers who tried smuggling fertilizers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Somanya Police Command in the Eastern Region is to arraign five drivers who were arrested for allegedly stealing fertilizer meant for cocoa farmers at Samarboi in the Western Region.<\/p>\n

The five trucks carrying a total of four thousand fertilizers were arrested by the Somanya Police Command on Monday.<\/p>\n

According to the Somanya Police Commander, DSP Isaac Otsin, the fertilizers were being transported from the Tema Harbour.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe arrested five trucks of fertilizer with each truck containing 800 bags of fertilizer. This makes it 4000 bags in total that have been intercepted in Somanya. We have impounded them and they are at the Municipal Assembly. The smugglers are with the police and are assisting with investigations. According to them, they loaded from the Tema Harbour and were heading towards Samarboi in the Western Region.\u00a0 With 4000 bags of fertilizers, we need to put them before court.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There have been recorded cases of smuggling of fertilizer, a development that negatively impedes the successful implementation of Government\u2019s flagship Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) program.<\/p>\n

As a result, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture has said it is intensifying measures to check and eliminate fertilizer smuggling to neighbouring and other African countries.<\/p>\n

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Already, some districts in the northern part of the country have placed an indefinite ban on the movement of fertilizer from their jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n