{"id":6552,"date":"2014-03-16T18:57:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2014-03-16T22:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T22:09:40","slug":"unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs destroy unwholesome goods in Aflao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Fake-goods-from-China.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6553\" alt=\"Fake-goods-from-China\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Fake-goods-from-China.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Two <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"2e5f916a-9a8b-42d2-b41f-f134adbcf633\">truck-loads<\/span> of unwholesome and expired imported goods have been destroyed by the Ghana Revenue Authority\u2019s (GRA) Customs Division at Agblekpui, near Aflao.<\/p>\n<p>Estimated at several thousands of Ghana Cedis, the items included cartons of assorted soft and alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals, canned foods and vegetables and pornographic materials.<\/p>\n<p>Others were bags of wheat flour, foot wears, electrical cables and fittings, chemicals and reagents and video and audio recordings and empty plastic receptacles used in fuel smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"a730ecab-1d14-4c1d-a01d-9175f9091038\">health<\/span>, Police and Immigration officials and the press were witnesses of the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The officials had difficulty in controlling a crowd of civilians from nearby villages who unsuccessfully struggled to pick items from the blazing fires.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Forson, Senior Revenue Officer of Customs in charge of State Warehouse at Aflao, who led the team, advised importers to respect regulations guiding imports to avoid losing their investments to seizure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlicensed importers not familiar with the regulations, must seek prior clearance to avoid falling foul of the law\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Forson said the division will leave no stone unturned in protecting consumer interests in the handling of unwholesome goods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two truck-loads of unwholesome and expired imported goods have been destroyed by the Ghana Revenue Authority\u2019s (GRA) Customs Division at Agblekpui, near Aflao. Estimated at several thousands of Ghana Cedis, the items included cartons of assorted soft and alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals, canned foods and vegetables and pornographic materials. Others were bags of wheat flour, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[17],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Customs destroy unwholesome goods in Aflao - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Customs destroy unwholesome goods in Aflao - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two truck-loads of unwholesome and expired imported goods have been destroyed by the Ghana Revenue Authority\u2019s (GRA) Customs Division at Agblekpui, near Aflao. Estimated at several thousands of Ghana Cedis, the items included cartons of assorted soft and alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals, canned foods and vegetables and pornographic materials. Others were bags of wheat flour, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/citi97.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-03-16T18:57:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-03-16T22:09:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Fake-goods-from-China.gif\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jonas Nyabor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@citi973\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@citi973\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jonas Nyabor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/\",\"name\":\"Customs destroy unwholesome goods in Aflao - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-03-16T18:57:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-03-16T22:09:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/476b2fb2e9233445afbfa2662d85fe6b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Customs destroy unwholesome goods in Aflao\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/\",\"name\":\"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\",\"description\":\"Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/476b2fb2e9233445afbfa2662d85fe6b\",\"name\":\"Jonas Nyabor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b74e004fce505330b7ba17aeaae177b3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b74e004fce505330b7ba17aeaae177b3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jonas Nyabor\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/author\/jonas\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Customs destroy unwholesome goods in Aflao - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Customs destroy unwholesome goods in Aflao - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","og_description":"Two truck-loads of unwholesome and expired imported goods have been destroyed by the Ghana Revenue Authority\u2019s (GRA) Customs Division at Agblekpui, near Aflao. Estimated at several thousands of Ghana Cedis, the items included cartons of assorted soft and alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals, canned foods and vegetables and pornographic materials. Others were bags of wheat flour, [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/","og_site_name":"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/citi97.3","article_published_time":"2014-03-16T18:57:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-03-16T22:09:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":200,"url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Fake-goods-from-China.gif","type":"image\/gif"}],"author":"Jonas Nyabor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@citi973","twitter_site":"@citi973","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jonas Nyabor","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/","url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/","name":"Customs destroy unwholesome goods in Aflao - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-03-16T18:57:20+00:00","dateModified":"2014-03-16T22:09:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/476b2fb2e9233445afbfa2662d85fe6b"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/unwholesome-goods-destroyed-by-customs\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Customs destroy unwholesome goods in Aflao"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/","name":"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","description":"Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/476b2fb2e9233445afbfa2662d85fe6b","name":"Jonas Nyabor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b74e004fce505330b7ba17aeaae177b3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b74e004fce505330b7ba17aeaae177b3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jonas Nyabor"},"url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/author\/jonas\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}