Police find 60-acre 'wee' plantation at Boti; four farmers arrested
Police and community watch members found more than 60 acres of Indian hemp at Boti in the Yilo Krobo District on 10 June 2009 and arrested four farmers working the fields, amid concern that subsidised fertiliser was feeding the crop.
🇬🇭 Boti, Yilo Krobo District, Eastern Region · Ghana
A combined team of police and the Korle-Nkwanta Neighbourhood Watch Committee identified a plantation of more than 60 acres of Indian hemp, known locally as wee, at Boti in the Yilo Krobo District.[1]The team had set out to destroy a 20-acre plantation spotted through intelligence monitoring, then found a further 40 acres in the same town.[1]
Officers arrested four farmers on the plantations: Nartey Felix, 17, Dawutey Tawiah, 32, Emmanuel Narh, 54, and Emmanuel Akuteye, 60.[1]The chief of Boti-Centre, Nene Tei Oklitey, was picked up by the police to help identify the owners of the land.[1]
The municipal commander, Superintendent John Naami, said the large-scale cultivation fed crime and insecurity, and called for tighter scrutiny of subsidised fertiliser supply after reports that some farmers were using state-subsidised fertiliser on hemp farms.[1]Police said the four arrested men would be processed for court after interrogation, and that the municipal command had destroyed more than 100 acres of hemp around Boti, Huhunya and nearby areas in less than a year.[1]
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