The Savannah Regional Taskforce fighting rosewood trade has impounded two trucks illegally transporting rosewood.
The two trucks were impounded in Damongo, the Savanah Regional capital on Sunday, June 28, 2021.
There is currently a ban on the harvesting and export of rosewood which has been in place since 2019.
Despite the directive, some persons have been caught engaging in the felling and haulage of rosewood.
Citi News understands that the impounded wood and trucks have been parked at the offices of the Forestry Commission in the region.
The two drivers and other occupants of the trucks are also in the grips of the police waiting to be arraigned.
Meanwhile, the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor, who earlier spoke on the Rosewood trade, reiterated the government’s commitment to enforcing the ban on rosewood felling and exportation.
“Across the northern part of our country, the Forestry Commission and its guards and its enforcement regime are actively policing the activities of those who harvest this wood and export them and so on and so forth.
We have got into partnership with the chiefs as far as the enforcement is concerned “and that is really helping,” the Minister said.
—citinewsroom
