The long vehicle with registration number GN3009-09 is in police custody pending further investigations.

The seized product is 50,000 litres of diesel valued at GHc213,500.

The driver, Hamza File, is assisting the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), and the police administration to establish the source of the product.

The BNI has instructed that the vehicle should be transferred to the regional command.

The transporter, Alhaji Amadu used Star Oil Company Limited invoice to perpetuate the illegality.

Citi News‘ reliable sources at Star Oil Company Limited revealed that, the company does not own the said vehicle.

It has also been established that the NPA has disapproved of cross zonal lifting of diesel.

The measure forms part of the NPA’s strive to stop smuggling of contaminated fuel which lately gained media attention.

NPA seizes GHc1.4m smuggled petrol

Officials of the NPA last week impounded 15 truckloads of smuggled petroleum products worth GH¢1.4 million.

Each of the trucks was loaded with 54,000 litres of either petrol or diesel.

–

By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah.com/citifmonline.com/Ghana

The post Another truckload of smuggled ‘contaminated’ fuel impounded appeared first on Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always.

With 31% of votes counted, the ANC had 58.7% of the vote followed by the Democratic Alliance on 27.7%.

The ANC is widely expected to return to power although analysts say anything less than 60% of the vote for the party will be seen as a major upset.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party was in third place with 4.2%.

The electoral commission said voting passed peacefully in most areas.

Turnout was just over 72%, with about 25 million people registered to vote in 22,000 polling stations across South Africa.

The elections are the first since the death in December of Nelson Mandela – the country’s first black president – and mark 20 years since the end of white-minority rule.

Those born after the end of apartheid in 1994 were able to cast their ballots for the first time, although only a third of those entitled to do so had registered to vote.

An ANC victory would return President Jacob Zuma for a second five-year term. In the last election in 2009, the ANC saw a drop in support, polling 66% of the vote.

Speaking as he cast his vote on Wednesday, Mr Zuma said he thought “the results will be very good”, but added that the campaign had been “very challenging”.

The party emerging as the ANC’s main challenger is the Democratic Alliance (DA) – a liberal pro-business party, led by anti-apartheid activist Helen Zille, which is trying to make inroads into the black electorate.

The EFF, launched last year by former ANC youth leader Julius Malema, hopes to get its first parliamentary seats with its campaign for nationalising the mines and the forced redistribution of farmland.

Source: BBC

The post South Africa election: ANC takes early lead as votes counted appeared first on Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always.