Togolese security at the Ghana-Togo border at Aflao have warned Ghanaian Porters of severe punishment including imprisonment when found with contraband goods whose owners could not be identified.

They have, therefore, advised them to check any luggage they were engaged to carry to avoid being arrested for possessing narcotics, firearms and stolen religious relics.

The warning, which was delivered by a Togolese security delegation to Togbe Amenya Fiti V, Paramount chief of the Aflao Traditional Area, advised the Porters to move with the luggage owners, who could account for the goods when intercepted.

At a meeting with the Porters on Monday, Togbe Fiti said the Togolese authorities have been worried lately about the hike in cross-border crimes and warned that they (porters) might not be set free when caught with such goods without their owners.

He advised parents of the Porters to send their children to school instead of allowing them to compound the poverty in their families.