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Jail customs officials caught in warehouse fraud - K.B. Asante

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  • Old Dirty Bastard 10 years ago

    That will be a bonanza for judges

  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    Why wrong doers who dupe the state are not going to jail in Ghana?

  • Old Dirty Bastard 10 years ago

    Judges will want some of the GHC700.

  • BlindMan 10 years ago

    Ti would be FRUITLESS is this statesman would shy away from the practices at High Ofices of the State!
    The clean-up starts from the TOP down; scape- goating the junior staff for the crimes by the 'upper echelons' had been th ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

    Author:-Hon. Martin A.B.K. Amidu.

    ...The Government exercised the latter option when we disagreed over the judgment debt and other Gargantuan crimes. The Government, and my colleague Ministers at the time know that there w ...
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  • STUPID 10 years ago

    OH NO!THIS MAN REALLY LOOKS LIKE DRACULAR.THEY ARE ALL CORUPT

  • BerylRichards 10 years ago

    Yes i agree those felas assets should be liquidated (not to the extent as to jeopardize their kids future) but when it is not part of the cabinet you are quick to talk. What about the ministers who have been chopping the mone ...
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  • Mebo afu 10 years ago

    The guy/president is so koaked in corruption that he feels guilty to jail someone the same character. Look at Woyomi, GYEEDA, etc,instead of sending them to jail, the president rather supports them because he has a share of t ...
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  • MANTSE 10 years ago

    While I agree with Uncle K B Asante, I want to ask one question:

    Uncle K B, what pusishment do you prescribe for those in Govt who feature in such schemes and contrive Customs Officers, at the threat of losing their jobs i ...
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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    If Mahama himself is not corrupt as we hear people saying that he loves money more than Kufuor, then this is a unique opportunity for him to prove his mettle

  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    I agree with your statement but we have to back-off listening to people's idea about Mahama. Anyone who loves money more than Kufour must be a devil.

    We have to exercise patience to see whether or not his avowed penchant t ...
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  • DAVID V.K. ARKORFUL 10 years ago

    Elsewhere all custom officers involved in this unprecedented scandal would have been given life sentence and their properties confiscated to the state.
    Poor Ghana.The nation has suffered enough in the hands of few individual ...
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  • Vuvuzela 10 years ago

    You are correct; they (CEPS officers) all should be in prison by now.

  • MANTSE 10 years ago

    Uncle K B, what about those in Govt who contrived the Customs Officers into this situation?

    When matters like this arise, we focus our inquiry and seek to purnish those on the FRONTLINES who may ONLY be doing the bidding o ...
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  • DEE 10 years ago

    HOW MANY OF THESE CRIMINALS HAS BEEN JAILED FOR DUPING THE STATE?COMMITTEES ARE SET TO INVESTIGATE,REPORTS ARE GIVEN OUT AND ALL WE HEAR IS THAT THE CULPRITS HAS BEEN TRANSFARED TO ANOTHER STATION WITH THEIR STOLEN BOOTY.CASE ...
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  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    These people have forgotten that there are some energetic lunatics in Burma camp?These types of pronoucements are invitation for coup-detat.Assuming there were some wrong dealings in CEPS why can't they arrest them first and ...
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  • Krikri,, 10 years ago

    Everything they have stolen should be rerieved from them. After that they should be jailed. Enough must surely be enough

  • Benash 10 years ago

    Atta Mills went to Tema harbor after Anas Ameyaw video recording and he screamed on top of his voice but up till now none of the Customs officers on the video tape went to jail so why would they stop looting.
    Such officials ...
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  • GOWAN 10 years ago

    It is on record that some higher ups in the Mahama-Amissah Arthur administration are neck deep in this corruption fueled activity. We just heard that the VEEP, the Trade Minister-Haruna Iddrisu and a host of others have left ...
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  • EDEM 10 years ago

    How can the personification of the very activity called corruption, show corruption who is the Boss? Interesting times ahead between the battle of the corrupt.

  • Mahama Nimnut 10 years ago

    There is no "Fa MA Nyame" Syndrome in the developed countries, that's why those countries are flourishing and we all rushing to live there. You pay for your crime committed. If Ghana wants to move ahead then we should throw t ...
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  • Edwin 10 years ago

    what happened to the companies causght by Anas last time. Did we ever hear anything afterwards. The thing vanished. Why did they not publish what was paid last time by these companies when caught. Was any body tried for the c ...
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  • Kofi kwame 10 years ago

    How can we succeed as a nation with plain cloth thieves running our ports for us just jailed every costume official cought

  • OKRO MOUTH 10 years ago

    Who can survive on u$1 a day ( and most workers in Ghana earn less than that)The only people who can survive must be cheats. Maybe that is why we are being advised to "ship out if we find the kitchen to be too hot"

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Old K B, government cannot jail anyone. Let the courts decide what the punishment for crimes are. The days of the buga-buga devils are over. We need to be civil especially those of us who are seen to be old. There are many pe ...
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  • k.k.egbeomor 10 years ago

    no coment

  • Mustapha iddris 10 years ago

    The Presidential Task is just beating about the bush. Nothing will come out of what they are doing about the alleged uncovering of massive tax fraud in some mentioned Bonded Warehouses. Any time the Government is in need of c ...
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  • kwadwo totobii 10 years ago

    Since time in memorial the Customs and Excise have been a base of corruption in Ghana.There must be exemplary hard action against them to discourage corruption in any form.

  • mohammed 10 years ago

    They must pay with interest to discourage them from attempting next time again and that will deter all. A corruption charge is the prorate amount each culprit will pay associated with the cost of investigation.

  • kk 10 years ago

    There is no political will in dealing with corruption in Ghana.
    President needs not even open his mouth on this, the institutions tasked with this should have deal with them. We refused to prosecute corrupt officials in our ...
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  • Nana 10 years ago

    Poor people steal cassava or plantains and they get 7years behind bars rich men steal gov't money and their cases are dragged on and on.

  • Joe 10 years ago

    Ghana is just like a PROSTITUTE. Anyone willing to enter and enjoy, does so without fear. We are bleeding stupid as a nation. Ghana is being raped left, right, center and its just so scary to think about the future of the nex ...
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  • OWEN, NEW YORK 10 years ago

    Mahama talk little and do something more.

  • peace 10 years ago

    mahama is behind this

  • ghanaba 10 years ago

    video every clearing process, especially the ispectorate. where every item is videoed and kept for ten years. when people overspeed and fined, they can always go back and verify, from films. even cell phones of today have eno ...
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  • SARP 10 years ago

    EVERY YEAR OR TWO THE GHANA Audit service audits all warehouses in Ghana.Additionally,the Customs audit unit also does that.How come am fraud of this magnitude @ the warehouses?Ghanaians,don't be deceived.This is a blantant l ...
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  • BOY KOFI 10 years ago

    We pay too many taxes,making it very difficult for importers to be patriotic.Have you seen how many big companies are unable to pay the high taxes?Then what about just a poor hustler coming home with his goods?You cannot buil ...
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  • G. K. Berko 10 years ago

    It should not have taken this long for some Statesman to demand this action from the Government. We all know about the revelations by Anas Aremayaw upon his risky but thorough investigations of the CEPS both at the Tema Port ...
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  • kwaku larbi 10 years ago

    is good some people are greedy

  • pinpinees 10 years ago

    what about the customs officials in the harbors of ghana.. they are all fucked up ..

  • Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris 10 years ago

    That is what we want.....ende-today exactly nd disent------Ogyamanase yi speaking nd Amen!nd babye from now, God bless u our mother-Ghana...nd Amen!...

  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    OUR GIVING IT TO GOD IS RUINING THE NATION !!!
    Confiscate the Property from the STOLEN MONEY and put them behind bars for 60+ yrs EACH!!!
    K.B. Asante is RIGHT !!

  • mr Tina 10 years ago

    Thank you K.B Asante. I hope Mahama hears this and it will do the country a lot of good.

  • PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI- McA 10 years ago

    EMPLOY =EXPERTS IN COMMODITY XCHANGES
    FOR ALL COMMODITIES IN GHANA
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    AS THE FOUNDER OF THE GHANA COMMODITY EXCHANGES & THE FOUNDER OF THE GHANA INSTITUTE OF MARKETING WE NE ...
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  • Paa Kodwo 10 years ago

    TIME TO HAVE A STRICT LAW ENFORCEMENT AND VIGOROUS JUDICIAL SYSTREM TO WEED OUT THESE CORRUPT OFFICIALS AT THE PUBLIC SECTOR.

    THE PRIVATE SECTOR CANNOT CONTINUE TO BE THE MILKING MACHINE OF THE COUNTRY.

    HOW CAN THE STAT ...
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  • Concerned Ghanaian 10 years ago

    First of all, the news article says over 280 private and public companies, but failed to list all companies involved in the fraud, while naming only 5 out of the over 280 companies. secondly, per the news article, the amount ...
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  • Ely 10 years ago

    this is not amounts owing, it is a criminal activity, they should have not been given any time at all, don't forget they stole these monies and should have been asked to pay interest on them. We are too lenient on wrong doer ...
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  • Agbee 10 years ago

    the lea cages, the stealing, the looting is too much.the CEPS officers found culpable must really be dealt with ruthlessly.

  • KASAVUBU 10 years ago

    Way back in the mid-1980s there was this Statesman who held his own that the proposed educational reform was going to turn our children into carpenters and mason and bricklayers, come 1987.The ruling junta played it fast by a ...
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  • The youth 10 years ago

    Pls Mr.K.B Asante how many white collar crimes committed have you advised and succeeded to incarcerate in this country?

  • liv 10 years ago

    When has anyone in Ghana been jailed for corruption. Only people who steal goats and cows get jailed. We cannot ask them to declare their assets when Ministers won't declare theirs.