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CEPS geared to exceed projected annual
revenue
Bolgatanga, Dec. 2, Ghanadot/GNA- Senior Officers of the
Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) at the weekend
said the service would exceed its annual revenue target of
16.617 Trillion Cedis this year.
Mr Junior Appiah-Warden, Chairman of the Senior Staff
Association, CEPS (SSACEPS) who spoke on behalf of the
Officers at their 17th Annual Delegates Conference in
Bolgatanga, said, "if we put in our best and worked hard
during this last month, we would make it".
"For the past two years running, CEPS has always marginally
trailed its annual revenue set targets, but this year we
shall break this jinx and exceed the set target", he said.
He explained that Tema, a major revenue collection point
recorded very good collections in all the past months except
April and October and hoped that since December yields most
of the revenue they collect in a year, there was every
indication that they would exceed the target this year.
Mr. Appiah-Warden appealed to the Government to resource
CEPS adequately to enable it to build up the capacity to
lead other revenue collecting agencies to generate more
funds on sustainable bases.
Mr Appiah-Warden suggested to the Management of CEPS to
design anti-corruption educational strategies such as
welfare packages, good remuneration and social systems that
would ensure that the customs officer was well catered for.
"By so doing we shall be building the robust and
anti-corruptible Officer that Ghana needs, and beyond active
service CEPS Officials should not become paupers", he said.
He regretted the past bribery case involving CEPS Officers,
saying, "We of SSACEPS condemn all acts of malfeasance
within the service", and urged the Officers to refrain from
such acts in the performance of their functions.
He called for a humane way of handling certain corrupt
cases; saying that, the arrest, media publication, and
public tongue-lashing only dampened the morale of all
Officers and drastically affected revenue collection for the
month of October.
He appealed to manufacturing companies and importers
especially those in the textile and tobacco industries to
support CEPS with logistics to enable them check smuggling.
GNA
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