Police spray 150 acres of wee farms at Dabea-Gyakiti, arrest four
Police destroyed 150 acres of cannabis farms by spraying at Dabea-Gyakiti near Akosombo around 10 October 2019 in a two-day operation led by the CID's drug unit with the Narcotics Control Board, arresting four farm owners and labourers.
🇬🇭 Dabea-Gyakiti, near Akosombo, Eastern Region · Ghana
The police destroyed 150 acres of cannabis farms, with a street value of more than a million dollars, by spraying them at Dabea-Gyakiti near Akosombo in the Eastern Region.[1]Four suspects, including the owners of the farms and labourers whose names were withheld for security reasons, were arrested to assist in investigations.[1]
The two-day operation was led by Superintendent David Selom Hukportie, the director of the Drug Law Enforcement Unit of the CID headquarters, together with the Narcotic Control Board.[1]Hukportie told the Ghanaian Times the operation followed police intelligence that uncovered large-scale cultivation of cannabis on the mountains and in the enclaves of the area.[1]
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The exact dates of the two-day operation were not stated; the article was published on 11 October 2019 after an interview the previous day, so 10 October is used as the end date.
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