The Akanu Sector Com­mand of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) in the Volta Region has intercept­ed 54 jerry cans of petroleum products been smuggled into neighbouring Togo.

The GIS personnel on a rou­tine patrol near the Kpoglo Bor­der Post in Kopeyia, discovered the fuel (25-litre per jerry can) on a Togolese truck registration number TG 9378 AQ.

The operation was led by Inspector Ebenezer Asa-Appiah, Assistant Inspector Israel Gidisu, and ICO Benjamin Prah.

A press statement issued by the GIS, signed by Assistant Com­missioner of Immigration (ACO) Michael Amoako-Atta, and copied to Ghanaian Times in Accra, yes­terday, said the seized items were tested by officials of the National Petroleum Authority in Ho, to verify the fuel content.