Customs Boss Explains Why ‘Small Boy’ SP Wants To Bring Him Down [VIDEO]

Colonel Kwadwo Damoah (Rtd.), the Commisioner of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authoeity (GRA), has taken swipe at the report by the Office of the Special Prosecutor implicating his office in corruption-related acts involving Labianca Company Limited.

Describing the reports as ‘hollow’ and one that does not contain any substance while speaking at a Customs Division Management Retreat in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, the Commissioner of the Customs explained that, the basis for the OSP’s investigative report was because he did not allow one Mr Akrugu to be seconded to the SP’s office.

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He started that any attempts by the Special Prosecutor to bring him down will not work because the Almighty God is on his side.

“Three days ago a report purported to be coming from the office of the Special Prosecutor trying to indict the Deputy Commissioner of Operations and my myself [but] anybody who has read that report very well will know the basis of that, “he said while addressing som Senior Customs officer at the retreat.

“And luckily for Me, God is always on my side, before that report came, that person had made a comment to some people who had come to tell me [that] he [Special Prosecutor] was going to publish (a report) that will discredit me…

“I even sent people to go and tel him that he is small boy and I am older than him, I have lived a meaningful life and if he attempts to destroy me, it won’t be easy for him. people have tried and I have survived and this one too I will survive it.”

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In explaining the underlying friction between him and the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyabeng, Col Damoah said:

“All that happened because he [Special Prosecutor] wanted Mr Akrugu to be seconded to his office and I said ‘no,’ Mr Akrugu is a custom officer, primarily employed to do customs work. And he is to partner Mr Akoto Fakyin in that office, Africa Continential Free Trade Area.

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A deputy Commissioner of Customs in charge of Operations, Joseph Adu Kyei, was cited for issuing unlawful customs advance ruling according to the SP’s report.

This led to the reduction of the values of intended imports between a range of 5 percent and 10 percent below the benchmark values.

The ruling was said to have been aprroved by Col. Damoah and did not appear to have brought to the notice of the Commissioner-General, accroding to the report.