Tension Brews In Akanu Border Post In Dzodze As Ghana Immigration And Custom Officers Fight Over Impounded Goods 

THE Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service, Customs and Preventive Service stationed at the Akanu border post in Dzodze in the Volta Region have been exposed for refusing to hand over goods they have impounded from the smugglers to custom officials at the borders.

Information available to Soireenews.com  indicates that the the immigration officers of the  Akanu border post have impounded some items believed to have been brought from Togo into Ghana by the smugglers.

The goods, Soireenews.com gathered are supposed to be in possession of the custom officials as they are in charge of the goods while immigration is in-charge of passports and documentations.

The impounded goods  in custody of the  Ghana immigration officers are  two hundred (200) gallons of vegetable cooking Oil, twenty (20) bags of rice, twenty (20) bags of Sugar and ten bags of white flour.

Sources revealed that the above mentioned goods were arrested alongside Six (6) Tricycles also known as aboboya.

According to the information available to this news outlet three of the items were registered but the remaining three were without registration numbers.

These are the registration numbers for the three tricycles; M -22- GE 6238, M - 23 - VD 464 and M, - 21 - VR - 1901.

It is alleged that One thousand Ghana Cedis for each of the tricycles with the goods was collected from the owners of the goods before the arrest was effected.

The issue is awaiting further investigations. It is also alleged that the immigration officials at Akanu are chasing goods and extorting money instead of concentrating on their core assigned duties.