According to many media reports in Ghana, recently, 13 container containers of hedgehog rosewood (Rosewood) entered Tema Harbour from Nigeria and tried to re-export them to their final destination. land.
The status of these containers is that each of them is loaded with about 20 cubic meters of timber. They will be in an undeclared cargo terminal of Ghana Overseas Commercial Co., Ltd. (the Overseas Commerce Ghana Limited—an Uncleared Cargo List Terminal at the Tema Port) was seized. The total value is approximately US$234,000, which is more than 1,400,000 Ghanasedi (Estimated at $234,000 or over GH￠1.4 million). This behavior violated the Ghanaian authorities' ban on the acquisition, transportation, and import and export of endangered species.
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR) of Ghana has conducted in-depth cooperation with relevant agencies of other countries in this incident. After receiving information that 13 container containers will arrive at Tema Port, the deployment of personnel carried out seizures. action.
According to Mr Benito Owusu-Bio, Deputy Minister of Land and Resources for Forestry, at a briefing on August 27 (Friday), according to the contents of some documents, Ghana The local company FELISCO SUN GHANA LIMITED was one of the masterminds behind this incident.
The action team consisted of members from the National Investigations Bureau (NIB), National Security Bureau, Forestry Commission, and Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority).
After these container containers arrived at the port, the operation team's inspectors were unable to open them because the owner of the container was not on site. This is a practice required by due process.
Benito Owusu-Bio (Mr Benito Owusu-Bio) said on the afternoon of August 27 (Friday) that he himself led another inspection team to Tema Port, which included relevant government officials and the consignee at the time. All personnel in order to open the container. "We checked the documents of 5 suspicious container containers and found the following situation-the goods in the 5 container containers were confirmed to be rosewood wood hedgehog rosewood (Rosewood), and the additional information from the port indicated that 13 container containers were actually involved instead of We originally reported the 5, so we randomly opened the 6th container container, which was still loaded with hedgehog red sandalwood logs," he said.
He added that the documents provided showed that the rosewood (Pterocarpus hedgehog) was imported from Nigeria and the consignee was FELISCO SUN GHANA LIMITED.