Commissioner, Customs Division of Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Col. Rtd. Kwadwo Damoah has disclosed that Customs Division could have raised more revenue in the year 2020 if revenue leakages were blocked.
According to him, if all aspects and regimes of customs and all frontiers were closely guarded to the extent that there were no possibility of smuggling then the Custom Division would have exceeded its revenue target.
“Once one person smuggles any item that’s a leakage and we all know that the borders are so porous such that there are places that are not accessible by way of using vehicles. There are places that you use mono bicycles, there are places that people by foot are able to evade the system so all those would impact so once you are talking about total, total means by land, sea and air so even there is one leakage by land it affects the total possibility,” he told Winston Amoah on Joy News’ Upfront.