A driver has been arrested after the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) intercepted 119 sacks of a compressed, dried substance, suspected to be Indian hemp, at Dabala, in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region.
The suspected narcotics were being transported to an unknown location in a Ford transit van and a lorry with international number plates that broke down along the way, security officials say.
The van has since been impounded and the driver arrested.
Briefing journalists before handing over the sacks of suspected contraband to the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), the acting commissioner of the GRA’s Customs Division, Alhaji Iddrisu Iddisah Seidu, said the arrest of the driver was based on intelligence.
For his part, the head of the Eastern Corridor monitoring task force, Abdullah Dari, said that activities of the sort interrupted by the GRA are criminal and affect revenue mobilisation.
He called on the public to continue to collaborate with the security agencies to apprehend people involved in crimes of this kind.