{"id":1263033,"date":"2022-12-08T14:16:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/customs-are-demanding-10k-to-clear-my-goods-comedian-michael-blackson-laments\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:16:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:16:59","slug":"customs-are-demanding-10k-to-clear-my-goods-comedian-michael-blackson-laments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/customs-are-demanding-10k-to-clear-my-goods-comedian-michael-blackson-laments\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs are demanding $10K to clear my goods -Comedian Michael Blackson laments \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>According to Michael Blackson, he has cousins in Ghana who have no jobs because there are no jobs available in the country so he decided to help. <\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Kalybos gave me my name \u2013 Ahuofe Patri\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He disclosed he bought goods in the States worth $10,000 and shipped it to them to set up their business but when the package got to customs, they also demanded another $10,000 as clearance fees.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>He tweeted, \u201cIf you are planning on shipping anything to Ghana, be prepared to pay a duty fee as high as the thing you shipped and if you don\u2019t pick them up in a timely fashion they will auction your belongings. Why <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhanaRevenue\">@GhanaRevenue<\/a> ?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI shipped some old furniture by ship duty was $1500 that didn\u2019t bother me, later I shipped my 2014 S class duty was $16k that didn\u2019t bother me but 3 boxes of clothes sent thru DHL that cost me $10k and you want me to pay $10k to get it out? Now you going too far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: We can\u2019t construct more roads because you refused to pay e-levy \u2013 Minister<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" width=\"672\" height=\"591\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-300539\"  data-lazy- src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-1-edited.png\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" width=\"672\" height=\"591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-1-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-300539\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>source: www.ghbase.com<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; According to Michael Blackson, he has cousins in Ghana who have no jobs because there are no jobs available in the country so he decided to help. READ ALSO: Kalybos gave me my name \u2013 Ahuofe Patri\u00a0 He disclosed he bought goods in the States worth $10,000 and shipped it to them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11281,9810,7916,139,3352,3714,4969,1713,511],"class_list":["post-1263033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-10k","tag-blackson","tag-clear","tag-comedian","tag-customs","tag-demanding","tag-goods","tag-laments","tag-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263033","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=1263033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}