Immigration Officers at the Chache border post has arrested Kia Rhino truck with the registration number GE- 4856-19 loaded with 93 bags of cashew nuts at Kawie unapproved route on Monday 4th May, 2020 at about 10:15am.
Speaking to the Bole District Immigration commander DSI Stephen Maxwell Adigbo through Yagbon Radio’s reporter Natomah Rebecca said, on the 3rd of May, 2020 at about 1400HRS officers at the Chache Border Post during their routine patrol on Kawie unapproved route which is about thirty kilometers (30km) from Chache Border, they came across a KIA Rhino truck loaded with Ninety three (93) bags of cashew heading towards Sawla. They followed the direction of the truck until their motor developed flat tyre which the patrol team were unable to arrest the vehicle with the goods.
On Monday 4th May, 2020 at about 1015hrs the officers at Chache Border again saw the truck that was identified loaded with cashew using the same unapproved route.
The KIA truck was trailed to Sawla where it was intercepted and escorted to the Bole with the help of officers from Bole District Office.
When the Driver by name Mahama Saaka was interrogated he admitted that, the goods were cart across the Black Volta from Cote D’voire and that on Sunday 3rd May, 2020 he had transported ninety nine (99) bags of cashew to Olam Ghana Ltd warehouse at Bole. The driver also admitted that the KIA Rhino belongs to Olam Ghana Ltd and that he is only a company driver.
On that same day one Alhaji Alhassan Fuseini came to the office to claim ownership of the goods and he was told that the seized goods would be sent to GRA of Customs Division for official handover which has since been done, he said.
DSI Stephen added that, it’s been difficult reaching that particular area to arrest people who used that illegal route due to lack of transport for patrols. The officers sometimes rely on their own private motorbikes in order to extend their patrols to the area.
He again appealed to the settlers in the area to confined in them by reporting those who used the unapproved route for their activities.
