Smuggled cocoa

The Bono Regional Office of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has seized three heavy-duty trucks loaded with bags of cocoa and lumber suspected of being smuggled to either, neighbouring Burkina Faso, Togo or Cote D’Ivoire. The ‘Man diesel trucks’ with registration numbers GR 7237-21, AS 5278-23 and GR 314-24 were impounded at Nkrankwanta in the Dormaa West District of the Bono Region. The Bono Regional Administrator of the COCOBOD, Michael Paddy Kwasi Asumanu, who disclosed this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani, said the trucks were seized upon a tip-off, saying the drivers, however, absconded.…