Wee farms burned in Huhunya mountains; two growers arrested
Eastern Regional police burned several acres of wee plantation hidden among food crops in the mountains around Huhunya on 5 August 2008. Two men found in a cave admitted owning the farms and were arrested.
🇬🇭 Huhunya, Yilo-Krobo District, Eastern Region · Ghana
The Eastern Regional Police Command destroyed several acres of wee plantation at Huhunya in the Yilo-Krobo district on Tuesday 5 August 2008.[1]The plantation, mixed with tomatoes and other crops, sat in the mountains surrounding the Boti and Akaa waterfalls.[1]
Led by the regional crime officer and the Koforidua district commander, police set fire to the plantations and to heaps of prepared wee ready for sale.[1]Acting on a tip-off, officers searched the area and arrested two suspects, Padi Kwaku and Emmanuel Keteku, in a cave on the mountain; both admitted during interrogation that they owned the farms.[1]
The men told police they had lived and farmed in the caves for 18 years but had taken up wee farming only two years earlier to pay debts from ill health, selling to customers from Accra and other areas who signalled them with an agreed whistle sound.[1]Police said the swoop was part of a clampdown on criminals linked to the region’s high crime rate, and that more than 10 acres of wee plantations had been destroyed in the region within two months.[1]The seized bags of wee and seedling samples were sent to laboratories for testing while investigations continued.[1]
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Only the Ghana News Agency wire could be opened; its GhanaWeb reprint now returns an error, so no fully independent second outlet confirms the details.
No figure for the number of plants destroyed or the exact acreage was published; the report says only several acres.
No court outcome for the two arrested men was reported in the opened source.
A June 2010 court-ordered destruction of 46 bags of hemp seized from Huhunya, including 25 bags from a separate 2008 swoop with 23 suspects, is a different enforcement event left out here.
No verifiable photograph of the raid with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened source.
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