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Immigration Service intercepts 250 drums of suspected illicit chemicals
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published: Jul 20, 2025
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has intercepted 250 drums of chemicals suspected to be sodium cyanide along the Black Volta River at the Zukpiri community in the Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West Region.
The illicit chemicals were ostensibly meant to be transported across the river to Burkina Faso through an unapproved route at that community.
This was contained in a statement signed by Inspector Ibn Yussif Duranah Abdul-Mumin Seidu, the Upper West Regional Public Affairs Officer of the GIS and copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Wa.
The statement said the illegal chemicals were apprehended on Wednesday, 16th July 2025, during a routine patrol led by Mr Bertrand Dery, the Officer In Charge (OIC) for the Nadowli-Kaleo District Command of the GIS.
“At exactly 1345HRS, the resilient personnel discovered the consignment at the bank of the Black Volta Lake ostensibly ready to be transported into Burkina Faso.
“The cache was collected and transported to the Nadowli police station for safe keeping, examination, and further action,” the statement indicated.
No arrest had been made yet, but the statement said the GIS had commenced investigations into the issue and persons complicit in the illegality would be arrested to face the law.
The statement added that as part of efforts to police the borders, particularly, the unapproved routes, the Upper West Regional Commander of the GIS, DCOI Justice Bosomtwi-Ayensu, had sanctioned a 24/7 manning of all known unapproved routes alongside routine patrols.
“As an agency clothed with the mandate of ensuring secured borders, we caution the public to desist from any form of cross-border related crime [s].
“Any unrepentant individual who stands our way shall become the way. The few recalcitrant persons whose livelihood is dependent on activities of illegality on our territorial borders must either stop or be stopped…,” the statement warned.
Source: GNA
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