{"id":3359,"date":"2011-02-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2011\/02\/24\/inquiry-for-tema-officers-cctv-for-port\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:30:57","slug":"inquiry-for-tema-officers-cctv-for-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2011\/02\/24\/inquiry-for-tema-officers-cctv-for-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry for Tema officers, CCTV for port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video by AA Anas of Ghana\u2019s <em>Crusading Guide<\/em> newspaper showed customs officials in collusion with importers to devalue the declared worth of goods, instances of bribery and a rift between the GRA and the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority over revenue collection.<\/p>\n<p>Following this, the government has now announced plans to install CCTV&#8217;s at key areas of the port to monitor daily activities, according to local news agencies.<\/p>\n<p>So far the GRA has interdicted 11 of its officers captured on the tapes. However, Mr Blankson said he \u201calso recognises to encourage and sustain the morale of the many customs officers who do their work professionally and have resisted the enticement of corruption\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The GRA will also attempt to retrieve lost revenue: Mr Blankson added that notices demanding payment have been issued to \u201ca number of importers\u201d who have been confirmed as having evaded taxes and duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corruption at Tema port will be dealt with \u201cfirmly and uncompromisingly\u201d George Blankson, commissioner general of the Ghana Customs Authority (GRA), has said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3361,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}