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Two Teenagers; Mujahid Aduni and Mahamudu Maiga, both 17, were on Saturday arrested by immigration personnel at Paga for attempting to smuggle 24 jerry-cans full of petrol to Burkina Faso.A third suspect, Bak Bakati Mahamadu, escaped arrest and fled across the border into Burkina Faso.The fuel was conveyed at about 5 pm in a taxi into a house at the border post to be carried across the border at night.Dickson Konadu, immigration officer in charge of the Paga border, said that following a tip-off, seven officers raided the house, but members of the community joined the culprits in an open confrontation with the officers, resulting in injuries to two of the smugglers while the uniform of a policeman was torn.According to him, the two boys were arrested following reinforcement of security personnel.A gallon of petrol which costs GH¢3 in Ghana sells at GH¢8 in Burkina Faso, hence the smuggling of the product into that country.Mr Konadu appealed to the authorities to provide the personnel with more motorbikes to step up patrol duties along the border.He said members of the border communities were threatening to eliminate the officials of the Immigration Service, if they continued to deny them their source of livelihoods.Source: The Ghanaian Times
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