Police cut and burn eight acres of cannabis in Peki-Dzake forest
Sixty officers from Ho destroyed two marijuana plantations totalling eight acres in the Peki Dzake forest on 16 July 2026 after a tip-off. Growers fled before officers arrived; police seized a hunting gun spotted nearby and said a wider mop-up of the enclave would follow.
🇬🇭 Peki Dzake forest, South Dayi, Volta Region · Ghana
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On Thursday 16 July 2026 about 60 police officers from Ho entered the Peki Dzake forest in
South Dayi district and destroyed two marijuana plantations covering eight acres in total.[1] Graphic Online said the raid followed a tip-off described by Volta Regional Police
Commander DCOP Wisdom Akorli.[1]
Officers armed with machetes cut the plants and burned the piles with lorry tyres.[1]
Occupants fled deeper into the forest before police reached the plots; Graphic reported three
men and a woman running from one farmstead.[1] Police seized a hunting gun from a man spotted
at a distance in the forest.[1]
Akoli said a mop-up would soon target remaining plants and seedlings in the Peki-Dzake enclave
and that the campaign would extend across the Volta Region.[1] He appealed for confidential
tips on cultivators.[1]
Graphic published a photograph of officers destroying plants during the operation.[1]
Modern Ghana had reported a separate 9 July 2026 operation that destroyed eleven farms in
the same Peki-Dzake enclave.[2]
Sources
- Police destroy 2 marijuana plantations in Peki-Dzake forest. Graphic Online, 20 July 2026.
- Police destroy 11 cannabis farms in Volta Region anti-drug operation. Modern Ghana, 10 July 2026. Archived copy.
Open questions the AI reported
- Graphic Online said the raid was on the Thursday before its 20 July publication (16 July 2026); a separate 9 July operation destroyed eleven farms in the same enclave and is covered in another report.
- Three men and a woman were seen fleeing one farmstead; no arrests were reported.
- Graphic said farmers also felled trees for charcoal and mixed dried cannabis with charcoal for transport; those practices were not quantified.
