{"id":1197492,"date":"2022-09-02T20:16:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T20:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/i-dont-have-confidence-in-eoco-murtala-mohammed\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:16:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T20:16:03","slug":"i-dont-have-confidence-in-eoco-murtala-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/i-dont-have-confidence-in-eoco-murtala-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t have confidence in EOCO &#8211; Murtala Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"I don't have confidence in EOCO - Murtala Mohammed\" title=\"I don't have confidence in EOCO - Murtala Mohammed\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>A former Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry has cast doubt over the ability of the\u00a0Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) to independently investigate the revelations made by the JoyNews expose dubbed \u201cFrozen tax\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, he doesn\u2019t believe EOCO is independent enough to be fair in its probe. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI really don\u2019t have confidence in this leadership of EOCO and EOCO for doing an independent work on this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on <strong>Joy FM\u2019s Top Story<\/strong>, on Friday, he stated that the best institution to take up the investigations should be the Office of the Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1336592608&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This, he explained is because the OSP is already investigating one of the companies cited in the expose -Labianca.<\/p>\n<p>His assertion is in the wake of a <strong>JoyNews <\/strong>documentary that uncovered how some frozen food companies falsified the contents of their containers which led to the underpayment of taxes up to the tune of GHC4.6 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"uzTH9Zq4eOI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frozen Tax: JoyNews&#039; latest investigation exposes fraudulent frozen food companies at Port\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uzTH9Zq4eOI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In one case, a container load of full chicken was declared as Sardinella fish.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Economic and Organized Crime Organisation was directed to take over the investigation into the alleged evasion of tax by these companies at the Tema Shipping yard. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p><strong>JoyNews<\/strong> sources say the companies will be required to submit responses on the allegations and also answer for infractions which will be detected by EOCO investigators on documentation and other material it has obtained.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, EOCO will seek to recover every pesewa lost to the state from the individuals and companies involved in the falsification of the import items.<\/p>\n<p>But the Tamale Central MP, says EOCO cannot do a thorough job.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry has cast doubt over the ability of the\u00a0Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) to independently investigate the revelations made by the JoyNews expose dubbed \u201cFrozen tax\u201d. According to Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, he doesn\u2019t believe EOCO is independent enough to be fair in its probe. \u201cI really don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[12067,342,2309,17,19107],"class_list":["post-1197492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-confidence","tag-dont","tag-eoco","tag-mohammed","tag-murtala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197492","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=1197492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}