{"id":1182759,"date":"2022-08-18T13:35:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/sack-all-at-the-helm-of-gra-awingobit-to-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T13:35:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:35:57","slug":"sack-all-at-the-helm-of-gra-awingobit-to-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/sack-all-at-the-helm-of-gra-awingobit-to-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sack all at the helm of GRA &#8211; Awingobit to Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Sack all at the helm of GRA - Awingobit to Akufo-Addo\" title=\"Sack all at the helm of GRA - Awingobit to Akufo-Addo\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The Executive Secretary of the Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana (IEAG), Samson Asaki Awingobit, has called on government to dissolve and sack the entire management of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).<\/p>\n<p>According to him, should government terminate the appointment of the Authority\u2019s Commissioner-General, Rev Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, and his subordinates, it will restore the institution\u2019s integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in the GRA, from the Commissioner General to the Commissioner of Customs to the Deputy Commissioner in Support, there is a problem there. The President, the government, or the Chief of Staff must stand their ground and find out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c President will listen to me, I am saying that fire the Commissioner General, the Deputy Commissioner in charge of Support, the Commissioner of Customs, and the board to bring confidence back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FJoyNewsOnTV%2Fvideos%2F759706322026930%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Awingobit made the pronouncement while contributing to the discussion on the alleged corruption activities involving the Labianca Group of Companies and the Customs Division.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>JoyNews<\/strong>\u2019 PM Express, the Executive Secretary stated that it was unprofessional for GRA\u2019s Commissioner-General to dissociate himself from Col Kwadwo Damoah\u2019s comments against the Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commissioner General is supposed to work with his Lieutenants and if you are there having issues with your Lieutenants\u2026 I don\u2019t know why Col. Damoah is still at post and you will issue a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an institution, he should have accepted and said whatever my men have done, I have taken the blame. We apologize on his behalf and we will deal with our staff in-house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While commending the Office of the Special Prosecutor for undertaking such an investigation, Mr Awingobit held a contrary view to the finding that GRA\u2019s Commissioner-General was not away from the going-ons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commissioner-General was aware that there were discounts given to importers. That there were rebates given to importers. The customs officers were having discretionary powers. He cannot run away from this,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Secretary of the Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana (IEAG), Samson Asaki Awingobit, has called on government to dissolve and sack the entire management of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). According to him, should government terminate the appointment of the Authority\u2019s Commissioner-General, Rev Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah, and his subordinates, it will restore the institution\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1182761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[648,23677,624,23751,394],"class_list":["post-1182759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-akufoaddo","tag-awingobit","tag-gra","tag-helm","tag-sack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}