NDC group criticises NPP over corruption

A group sympathetic to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the claim by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the national single window contract for the inspection of goods at the port awarded to West Blue, Ghana was not transparent.

According to the group, the JM Ambassadors, the NPP had recently found it politically convenient to paint the President John Mahama administration as corrupt without providing any shred of evidence to substantiate their claims. 

A statement issued by the group signed by its National Coordinator, Alhaji Alhassan Galadimah, said the decision to award the contract for the destination inspection to West Blue, Ghana was done in the best interest of the nation.

Revenue exceeded

The group said because West Blue, Ghana took over and implemented the national single window, the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) exceeded revenue targets for last year.

“Customs now also processes over 500 customs classification and valuation reports per day. In the past, only 200 were processed in a day by five destination inspection companies”, the group said.

The group said it was surprised at the reference to a letter purported to have originated from the office of the Chief of Staff that directed the contract for the national single window for the inspection of goods at the ports to be awarded to West Blue, Ghana.

Mind-boggling

The statement said “part of the letter that the NPP has found convenient to quote so often stated that “you should take the necessary steps to secure the public procurement approval” adding that “just how the NPP reads corruption into this is mind-boggling.”