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Business news for Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Source: GNA
2020-09-30
CSOs have called on the government to punish harsh people who smuggle fertilizers
Civil society organizations in the Upper East region have asked the government to name and shame people caught smuggling fertilizers destined for the government’s ‘Planting Food and Jobs’ (PJF) program.
The government, in order to boost food production, introduced the policy to support Ghanaian farmers with subsidized fertilizers and seeds.
However, due to the proximity of the Upper East region to Togo and Burkina Faso, some people are smuggling the fertilizer out of the country, denying Ghanaian farmers the opportunity to obtain the fertilizer for their farms.
It is in this context that CSOs asked the government to name and shame these perpetrators.
CSO member Mark Kebo Akparibo, who read a statement on behalf of the group during a regional stakeholder dialogue on FSY, called on the government to continue distributing confiscated smuggled fertilizers to the poor and vulnerable groups.
He urged the government to motivate informants and security personnel at various checkpoints to arrest and prosecute those involved in the smuggling of agricultural inputs.
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