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The joint anti-pirate textile task force set up by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) to curb textile smuggling and pirated designs into the country. The team comprise the Deputy Trade Minister, Murtala Mohammed, and members of the joint task force drawn from textile producers, vendors, and officials of MOTI, seized pirated textiles at various border entry points and markets in the country.
The team has destroyed a total of 3,500 pieces of pirated Ghanaian textile designs it seized at the Kpone land fill site this week.