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Bawumia pays surprise visit to Tema Port

Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh

This is the second time Dr Bawumia is paying such a surprise visit to a public institution.

On Monday (January 30, 2017) Dr Bawumia paid an unannounced visit to the Tema Port in the Greater Accra Region.

This is the second time Dr Bawumia is paying such visit to a public institution.

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The Tema Port is a major backbone of the country's revenue collection efforts, generating a significant percentage of annual domestic revenue. The Tema Collection Point of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) however missed its 2016 target, mobilizing GHȼ7,334,174,613.10 against a target of GHȼ7,690.380.000.00. The shortfall was 4.63 percent.

Jacob Kwabla Adorkor, Director of Ports, and officials of the Customs Division including sector commander, Confidence Nyadzi conducted Dr Bawumia round to observe the operations of the Nick TC Scan, Meridian Port Services (MPS), Golden Jubilee Car park, State Warehouse, and Atlas Copco, among others.

The Vice President also interacted with Clearing Agents, workers at the Port, security and other officers, and ordinary Ghanaians anxious to clear their goods on time.

He inspected seized goods stored in the State warehouse, including mattresses, fridges and other materials barred from importation.

In brief comments after the tour, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, indicated that the Akufo-Addo government would take steps to consolidate some of the functions at the port that interface with the public in order to reduce the frustrations of Agents and port users, while plugging any revenue leakages.

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Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Wednesday (January 18, 2017) paid a surprise visit to the Registrar-General’s Department to familiarise himself with the challenges facing the State outfit.

During his visit, he met with the Registrar General, the staff of the Department and ordinary Ghanaians who had gone to register their businesses.

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The people who had come to register their businesses expressed their displeasure at the “bureaucratic processes” in registering their establishments.

Dr Bawumia during his first visit mentioned that he will pay more of such unannounced visits to public institutions to also get firsthand information on the challenges facing the agencies.

Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh Magdalene Teiko Larnyoh A feminist at heart and a lover of art. She loves to write on business, politics and health.

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