100-acre marijuana farm burned in Ghana's Volta Region
Ghana's Narcotics Control Board said security forces destroyed a 100-acre marijuana farm in the Volta Region, arrested ten people including a couple and three students, and burned mature cannabis the board put at three tonnes; it said barons at home and abroad sponsored the cultivation.
Ghana’s Narcotics Control Board said on Saturday that a combined team of police, prison officers
and armed forces had destroyed a 100-acre marijuana farm in the Volta Region and arrested ten
people in connection with it.[1][2]The board said those held included a couple and three
students.[1][2]
Farm burned after arrests
The Narcotics Control Board said the mature cannabis on the farm weighed three tonnes.[1][2]It
added that drug barons in Ghana and outside the country had sponsored people to grow the marijuana,
and that the farm was later set ablaze.[1][2]
The board said more farms had been identified and would be destroyed; the opened reports do not
describe those later operations.[1][2]None of them name the detainees or any charges filed.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Sapa-DPA copy carried by Modern Ghana and GhanaWeb names only the Volta Region, not a district or town.
The archived GhanaWeb page dates the story to Sunday 6 October 2002 and says the farm was destroyed on a Saturday; this report uses 5 October 2002 (an earlier version used 29 December 2001 from the wrong publication timing).
None of the opened sources name those arrested or report court outcomes.
The board said more farms had been identified; those follow-up operations are separate events.
NACOC's Upper West Regional Command and the Ghana Immigration Service destroyed several cannabis farms at Siiru in the Nadowli District, burning plants found in unfinished buildings, in front of homes and beside maize fields. Officers then met residents to warn about the legal consequences of cannabis cultivation and asked them to report illicit drug growing and distribution.
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.
On 9 July 2026 about 60 Ghana Police officers cut down and burned 11 mature cannabis farms in the Peki-Dzake enclave of South Dayi district after intelligence on remote cultivation. The Ghana News Agency put the cleared area at about eight acres; growers fled before officers arrived and no arrests were reported.
After arresting one suspect on 15 June 2026, Eastern Region police burned cannabis on two farms totalling six acres at Akyeremanteng in Yilo Krobo, with illegal grid connections and irrigation. Other cultivators escaped when residents alerted them; the suspect was expected in court.
