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Let your work bring progressive
changes in the status quo, CEPS told
Bolgatanga, Nov 30, Ghanadot/GNA - Mr. Emmanuel N. Doku,
Commissioner of Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS),
on Friday called on the senior personnel of CEPS to muster
courage and bring about progressive changes to the service
and not just manage the status quo.
"We should strive, as senior officers, to be up to the task
by doing the right things, the ability to execute, decide,
follow- through and deliver on commitment. You need to
develop the right attitude which should include the tendency
to foster trust, share information and listen effectively",
he said.
Mr. Doku said this in a speech read on his behalf during the
17th Senior Staff Association of CEPS (SSACEPS) Annual
Delegates Conference in Bolgatanga.
He appealed to senior officers to be flexible and provide
opportunities for their subordinates to learn and provide
quality work.
"We must all strive to work together to meet the emerging
challenges such as the deployment of ICT in the service. We
owe it a duty to deliver fair, honest and transparent
service to our clients. I therefore urge you to develop and
nurture an insatiable appetite for accomplishment and
results.
Mr. Alhassan Samari, Upper East Regional Minister, said CEPS
was contributing more than 50 per cent of national total
revenue and called on government to support it with
logistics, technical and human resources so as to exploit
its full potential for the benefit of the country.
"From a figure of just over 2.4 trillion cedis collected in
2000, CEPS has over the past seven years increased its
collection to over 12.8 trillion cedis as at the end of
2006", he said.
He said since Ghana could not develop only on donor support,
it would have to exploit internally generated funds which
had no strings attached.
"This is where your role as senior officers of this very
important institution is most topical and worth
deliberating".
He advised the officers to eschew all negative practices
that would compromise revenue collection and rather show
commitment and professionalism by ensuring that all revenue
due to the state was put in state coffers.
"You must live above reproach and demonstrate to your
management that you are capable of carrying through their
policies in order to achieve set targets and objectives", he
said.
Mr. Mahami Salifu, Member of the Revenue Agencies Governing
Board (RAGB), commended CEPS for its role in revenue
collection, saying "Your resilience coupled with good
management and operational practices have enabled you to
maintain your leading role in revenue collection in the
country."
He appealed to the senior officers to improve their
managerial and supervisory skills and that there was no room
for complacency or mediocrity.
He urged them to step up tax education to inform and
enlighten the public and work towards a culture of voluntary
compliance.
GNA.
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