The Hohoe Divisional Police Commander, Mr Kofi Adei-Akyeampong, has alleged that some foreign nationals are financing the large scale cultivation of cannabis in the country for export.They include Jamaicans and nationals from the West Africa sub-region.He has therefore warned these foreign nationals and their Ghanaian collaborators to desist from these nefarious activities or face the full rigours of the law.Mr Adei-Akyeampong was speaking in interviews with the Ghana News Agency, after a team of policemen destroyed an 80-acre cannabis plantation at Kpota, near Akolamafu in the Hohoe Municipality.He said the police had to mobilise more personnel to destroy the vast plantation, after a swoop which led to the arrest of six people, including a Liberian.Mr Akyeampong commended the public for volunteering information on the activities of wee farmers in the area.He said weedicides had been sprayed on the plants after slashing them to make them unwholesome for consumption, and thanked the Ghana COCOBOD for providing the spraying guns for the exercise.Meanwhile, the six people who were arrested have been remanded into prison custody by a Hohoe Circuit court, presided over by Mr Edward Apenkwa.They were charged with the cultivation of the plant for narcotic purposes, contrary to section 4 sub-section 1 of PNDC Law 236/90.The accused, whose plea was not taken, are Raphael Atuwo, 35, Wisdom Azameti, 17, Enoch Deti, 15, Kwasi Abror, 14, Samuel Tenu, 14, and Say Sorry, 26, alias Maxwell, the Liberian. They are to appear in court again on April 17.Source: Ghanaian Times