A pregnant woman, a nursing mother, and two others working on a cannabis farm have been arrested while working at Liati Dafornu in the Afadjato South District of the Volta Region.
Forty acres of cannabis farms were been destroyed in a joint operation led by personnel of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) with support from the Immigration Service and the police.
The Head of Communications of NACOC, Francis Opoku Amoah, said his outfit would roll out more intelligence-based operations to combat the cultivation, production, and usage of illicit substances.
The arrest of the four, a man and three women happened during the operation which has been ongoing for days. One of the women was a pregnant woman, and the other a nursing mother.
“There was an arrest on the 1st of February 2022. We arrested 4 people, a 29-year-old and three females. Of The three females, one is a minor, and a 16 and 18-year-old. Unfortunately, for those 16 and 18 year-olds, one is a lactating mother, and the other is a pregnant woman. Those people are currently with the Hohoe Divisional Police,” he told the media.
“Cultivating cannabis is still illegal in our country, and therefore if you engage in it, you are engaging in illegal activity and the law will catch up with you… This is one of the largest. We can say that we’ve done more than 6 different farms and each farm could be more than 6 acres, so we are looking at a lot of acres that people have decided that instead of cultivating food for our country, they will use it for illegal activity,” he added.
The farms were subsequently cleared and burnt.
CCF’s advocacy on crime prevention
Crime Check Foundation (CCF) has introduced programmes including the latest ‘Stay Away From Trouble’ as part of its crime prevention advocacy project.
Through these programmes it has been cautioning the general public against acts that could land them in trouble in a bid to curb crime.
The Foundation screens one-on-one interviews with prison inmates bringing to bear acts that landed them into prison and the difficulties they face in custody.
It has also paid the fines of many petty offenders for their release.
