The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Police High Risk Operations and Training Center, in ongoing collaborative operations with the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), have destroyed about ten acres of cannabis farms in the Eastern Region.
Police arrested six suspects for cannabis cultivation during the operation, which targeted illegal farms in the Okere and Yilo municipalities.
The farms were located in secluded bush areas at Apraade–Nsuta in the Okere Municipality and Nsuta–Havie in the Yilo-Krobo Municipality. Police discovered the plantations while conducting arrests in the area.
Speaking to the media during the operation, Commander of the Police High Risk Operations and Training Center, Dr. Samuel Antwi-Akomea, said officers also found that the operators had illegally connected electricity to the farms.
He explained that the electricity was being used to boost the production of a type of cannabis known as amnesia, a strain that thrives under artificial lighting.
“The ones destroyed were mature, so if we weed them down, they will go and process it,” Dr. Antwi-Akomea said.
He added: “We are continuously cracking down on illegal cannabis cultivation. Our efforts involve large-scale destruction of illegal farms alongside intelligence-led operations.”
He warned that the police would deal drastically with perpetrators in the coming days as operations intensify across the region.
