85 acres of cannabis destroyed in Hohoe search-and-destroy operation
A joint police and Narcotics Control Board operation destroyed about 85 acres of cannabis farms around Agbeta in the Hohoe Municipal area in April 2009. Officers seized two homemade guns and shot the farms' guard dogs; the labourers fled into the forest.
🇬🇭 Agbeta and Agbeta, Hohoe Municipal, Volta Region · Ghana
A joint police and Narcotic Control Board (NCB) operation dubbed operation-search-and-destroy
destroyed about 85 acres of cannabis plantation in the Hohoe Municipal area.[1][2]In a three-day
operation ending Friday 17 April 2009, officers burned 35 acres of cannabis farms at Agbeta and
Agbeta after discovering that an earlier 50-acre farm sprayed with chemicals had been
clandestinely re-harvested by the growers.[1][2]
Officers seized two locally made guns at the farm gate and shot dead the Alsatian dogs deployed
to guard the farms, while labourers working on the farms fled into the forest at the sight of the
police presence.[1][2]The Hohoe divisional commander warned foreign financiers and their local
collaborators in the cannabis business that the police would not be intimidated by their
threats.[1][2]The NCB’s deputy executive secretary said the trade was becoming more sophisticated
and harder to combat without state-of-the-art equipment.[1][2]
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