A total of 129 yellow jerrycans of fuel said to have been packed in a temporary structure erected along the Ghana-Togo borderline purposely for smuggling into the Republic of Togo have been intercepted by security agencies.
According to MyNewsGh.com, which first broke the story, the illegal activity was detected by police officers, led by Assistant Inspector Sumaila Safo, deployed on patrol duties.
The police surveillance team was said to have placed a distress call upon chancing on the information and got reinforcement and together, the team intercepted the fuel and conveyed it to the main border in the two service patrol pick-up vehicles with registration numbers GI 75 and GI 202 driven by Senior Inspector Samuel Amoako and ICO Emmanuel Ganyo respectively.
The police, upon further intelligence, retrieved twelve (12) additional yellow jerricans of fuel from the same location.
The police said all efforts made by the GIS patrol team to arrest the suspects proved futile.
However, the Command is still making efforts to trace and apprehend the said owner(s) of the fuel.
Currently, the one hundred and forty-one (141) intercepted yellow jerrycans of fuel are in the custody of the GIS, Aflao Command pending further investigations and directives.
Source:www.energynewsafrica.com
