100-acre marijuana farm destroyed

Ghanaian security agencies said on Saturday they had destroyed a 100-acre marijuana farm in the West African country.

The Narcotics Control Board said 10 people, including a couple and three students, had been arrested in connection with the farm, which was located in the Volta Region.

The Board said a combined team of police, prison service officers and armed forces were involved in the exercise.

It said the mature cannabis weighed three tons, adding that drug barons in Ghana and outside the country sponsored people to cultivate the marijuana.

The farm was later set ablaze, the Board said adding that more farms had been identified and would be destroyed.