{"id":15082,"date":"2014-04-24T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2014-04-24T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T16:58:59","slug":"gra-boss-must-resign-akpabey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=15082","title":{"rendered":"GRA boss must resign &#8211; Akpabey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A financial analyst Kudzo Akpabey has told Citi Business News the commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority George Blankson must take ultimate responsibility for the failures of the revenue collection agency.<\/p>\n<p>Kudzo Akpabey is demanding a total overhaul in the leadership of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m only saying that the shake-up is still not enough there is the need for further shake up at the Top\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after President Mahama announced changes in the leadership of the Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).<\/p>\n<p>He lamented the continuous revenue loss is due to ineffectiveness of top officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are head of an institution , you are the CEO ,and all the lapses are going on , there are fraudulent practices with importers at the ports\u2026 we are only collecting about 20 to 25% of import duty at the ports, which is very low\u2026 so the buck stops where? \u2026if you are the CEO and something happens it\u2019s the Boss\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>By: \u00a0Rabiu Alhassan\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A financial analyst Kudzo Akpabey has told Citi Business News the commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority George Blankson must take ultimate responsibility for the failures of the revenue collection agency. Kudzo Akpabey is demanding a total overhaul in the leadership of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). \u201cI\u2019m only saying that the shake-up is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,4],"class_list":["post-15082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}