A combined team of Ghana Maritime Authority and Marine Police in the western region of the Republic of Ghana have arrested eight persons for engaging in illegal fuel trade on high sea popularly known as bunkering.
The suspects are currently in the custody of Marine Police while investigation is ongoing.
According to the authorities, the suspects are all Ghanaian citizens.
Speaking to energynewsafrica.com, the Western Regional Director of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Captain William Eson Thompson, said the Ghana Maritime Authority, the Western Navy and Marine Police have been collaborating to patrol the sea at night.
He said unlike previous operations where they left the sea early they decided to stay a little longer this time around and just when they were about winding up their monitoring they chanced on the suspects and arrested them.
According to him, the suspects are all young people.
“We’re building our dockets and we will be prosecuting them,” he said.
Capt. Thompson said the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) are taking inventory of the quantity of the product.
Source:www.energynewsafrica.com
