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.