{"id":45406,"date":"2025-02-24T07:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T07:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=45406"},"modified":"2025-02-24T07:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T07:42:47","slug":"immigration-intercepts-1115-gallons-of-cocoa-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/02\/24\/immigration-intercepts-1115-gallons-of-cocoa-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration intercepts 1,115 gallons of cocoa beans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service stationed at the Akanu Sector Command with the support of some officers of the Ghana Revenue Authority-Customs Division have intercepted a truck loaded with smuggled cocoa beans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Officers acted on intelligence waylaid the truck with registration number AS 2103 -W driven by one Ibrahim Fatawu. \u00a0<br>There were 1115 gallons stuffed with cocoa beans found in the truck at the Ave-Havi border post to be smuggled to Togo&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was contained in a press release issued and signed by Michael Amoako-Atta, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration in charge of Public Relations and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Sunday in Accra.\u00a0<br>It said the 1115 gallons of cocoa beans had been handed over to officials of COCOBOD while the truck had been impounded and the driver assisting in further investigations. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Ghana Immigration Service is hereby issuing a caution to all would-be smugglers to desist from such activity since it negatively affects Ghana\u2019s economy and also loss of revenue to the Government,\u201d it added. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Service commended members of the border community for their collaboration and support in protecting Ghana\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service stationed at the Akanu Sector Command with the support of some officers of the Ghana Revenue Authority-Customs Division have intercepted a truck loaded with smuggled cocoa beans. The Officers acted on intelligence waylaid the truck with registration number AS 2103 -W driven by one Ibrahim Fatawu. \u00a0There were 1115 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[4553,363,9204,946,11815,1747,12950,7583,5196,192,1632,62,8214,2264,6094,11572,6431,8383,1780,2485],"class_list":["post-45406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accra","tag-amoako-atta","tag-border","tag-cocoa","tag-cocoa-beans","tag-cocobod","tag-customs","tag-driver","tag-economy","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-immigration-service","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-revenue-authority","tag-government","tag-immigration","tag-immigration-service","tag-release","tag-revenue","tag-togo","tag-truck"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45409,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45406\/revisions\/45409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}