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Release
AFAG
November 18, 2015
The GRA and Inadequate Revenue
Generation From Telcos
The Alliance for Accountable
Governance (AFAG) is alarmed at the level of compromise at
the GRA, rendering them redundant and of little value to
ensure adequate revenue generation from the Telcos.
Over the past six years, AFAG has been consistent with
issues that inure to the benefit of the state, especially on
matters that border on revenue generation, monitoring of
call volumes fully, under declaration of revenue by Telcos
and simboxing.
We simply cannot understand why these Telcos are so adamant
in giving due respect to the laws of the land. AFAG is not
comfortable with Subah signing a non-disclosure and
non-competing agreement with them. In essence, Subah is
bereft of the real time value of call volumes terminating on
Telcos sites. To date we are only fed with whatever data is
handed over to us from the Telcos. Subah does not have any
means to verify the monthly call data submitted to them by
the Telcos. This is a worrying situation, requiring
immediate action! The NCA is therefore limited in their
oversight roles, while the GRA sees no reason to worry
about.
The GRA has little values for auditing. If external auditors
should just be content with the internal audit report of a
company without verification mechanisms to give meaning to
their engagement, then in essence, the GRA through its
compromised posturing on this situation involving Subah and
Telcos has declared useless the work of the auditor general.
We suspect the Telcos are heavily under declaring their
revenues. The Telcos play with the emotions of Ghanaians by
merely making the argument that any technology used to
monitor real time volume of calls is intrusive. Telcos must
stop this propaganda and allow for adequate monitoring of
calls terminating at their sites through automatic
technology and not one that they determine the volume of
calls and submit it to Subah.
AFAG has followed with keen interest the standoff between
the GRA and NCA with respect to revenue generation from
Telcos. We ask Ghanaians to stand by the NCA to put the
Telcos in line and not to be swayed by cheap propaganda that
any attempt to monitor call volumes automatically is deemed
as being actively listening to call contents.
Mr. President, the GRA is condoning wrong practices and the
continuous stay of its Commissioner General, will, mean loss
and massive under declaration of revenues by the Telcos.
Sack the GRA boss now to make way for a much sensible
approach to accountability by the Telcos.
AFAG
November 18, 2015
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Dr. Victor Lawrence on the list
for National Inventors Hall of Fame 2016 inductees
CBS, Nov 18, Ghanadot - While Lawrence himself
might not necessarily be a household name, his invention
of signal processing in telecommunications has had
far-reaching impact. An electrical engineer who spent
the majority of his career at Bell Laboratories,
Lawrence's work essentially made the modern Internet we
know today possible. He improved Internet transmission,
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Malaria protein may hold key
for cancer cure, scientists say
FoxNews, Nov 17, Ghanadot - Researchers seeking a
vaccine to protect pregnant women against malaria have
stumbled across what they believe to be a potential
cancer treatment. In cell cultures and mice with
multiple forms of the disease, malaria proteins armed
with a toxin sought out and absorbed cancer cells,
released the toxin and then destroyed the cells,
according to a news release........More
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Big African Debt
Burdens, Written Off, Are Back Again
WallStreetJournal, Nov 17, Ghanadot - Rock stars
helped convince the international community to write off
more than $100 billion of African government borrowings
a decade ago. Now the big debts are back, and it’s
getting tougher for countries to pay them off..
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