Ashanti Region business owners clap back at taskforce for confiscating smuggled cooking oil [Video]

The Ashanti Business Owners Association is discontent with a supposed anti-smuggling operation conducted by a joint task force comprising the National Security, Food and Drugs Authority, Tree Crops Development Authority, and Customs.

The task force raided the Central Business District of Kumasi to seize vegetable cooking oil brands believed to be unlicensed and smuggled into the country.

Affected business owners are calling for stringent surveillance at the ports and harbors.

During the operation, the task force combed retail shops in the Central Business District of Kumasi for unlicensed and smuggled vegetable cooking oil products.

Armed men moved from one retail shop to another and seized products worth millions of Ghana cedis, including Global, Dyanas, Special, and Roch vegetable cooking oils.

At least four brands were confiscated by the task force, which claimed to be executing the joint mandate of the Food and Drugs Authority, Customs Division, Tree Crops Development Authority, …