236 Views Posted on 05-Aug-2010 under Health

Two forty-footer container that contained over 1,500 cartons of expired fish meant for fish meal ended up at the Greenwich Cold Store at Tema to sold out for human consumption.
According to a letter from the outfit of the Customs Exercise and Preventive Service (CEPS) dated 14th July 2010, the unwholesome fish was meant to be processed into fish meal and was allocated to Daireson Company Limited at a cost of GHC 4,200 per container. The letter further directed the two containers to be moved to the operational area of the company with armed escort to ensure that no diversion whatesoever takes place.
Our video crew was however, privy to this information and had earlier mounted a surveilance on the consignment for four days with their cameras.
Health digest video crew observed that the container labelled MWMU 6381574 and GESU 9064905 were unstaffed at the TCT into two differnt container trucks.
The two trucks with registration numbers AS 2980E, and AS4490 E finally exited the terminal at 3;30 pm on July 24 without the armed escort.
It was then kept under close monitoring as it exited the port and headed towards the Tema Aflao Highway.
However, a few metres after the kpone barrier, the truck branched off the main road and drove to a distance at about two kilometres where an alleged negotions ensued between the truck drivers and a group of people believed to be prospective buyers of expired fish.
After a while, the trucks drove to the main road and headed towards Tema where it finally discharged the contents at the Greenwich Cold stores at Tema Fishing Harbour.
Meanwhile the Tema Office of the Food and Drug Board has placed an embargo on the two forty footer container that have been declared unwholesome for further investigation.
According to Mr. Vigil Edward Prah- Ashum, investigation would be launched into the circumstances under which the expired fish landed at the Greenwich Cold Stores after undertaken had bben signed by the Managing Director of the Cold store who imported the unwholesome fish into the country.
Currently, the fish is under detention to enable the board to involve and collaborate with the National Security and other relevant bodies to unravel how the fish was diverted to the Cold Store.

Editors Note;
We will webcast on our website an unedited video on how the expired fish got to the Greenwich Cold Stores very soon.