KICK OUT AMMISHADDAI …Keeping Him Smacks Of Favoritism

Unity of purpose, teamwork and strategic leadership are pivotal prerequisites in revenue collection but when there is a continuous rising agitation against the continuous stay in office of the retirement-ripe Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), it certainly adversely affects the output of the revenue collection Authority.

Rev. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah Commissioner General of the (GRA) may have to save the Authority the current acrimony and simply bow out when there is still some level of applause for him rather than wait to be ousted through a popular protest.

Many have opined and rightly so that any attempt to keep him in office despite his retirement age would conflict government processes and put an insecure nature into tax generation for the country’s development, high amount of workers of the authority have said.

Deep throats within the corridors of power have told The New Publisher, there is an intense lobbying in the last couple of days by Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah who is bent on retaining the position despite the series of controversies his retirement age, among other things have sparked.

Calls from within the GRA have expressed dissatisfaction in the continuation of Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah in office after his due date.

According to a senior management member of GRA, Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah is due for retirement next month, October, 2021 in the wake of a strong argument that he should not be allowed to continue serving his term and make way for a new appointment to be able to manage affairs of the authority for better refection of tax money.

“He retires in October. His predecessor Emmanuel Kofi Nti was left with a year and half to end his term but they sent him away. Why is this man being made to stay?” a senior management member who spoke on grounds of strict anonymity revealed.

“The President is his own man and has the right to retain whoever he wants to retain and mostly such decisions are influenced by the type of reports that bet to his desk. He is human and could make the mistake of retaining Ammishaddai but such a mistake would be a politically suicidal one that is irrevocable, irreparable and catastrophic” another highly placed source disclosed.

Apparently, the Executive Secretary to the President, Nana Bediatuo Asante in a letter dated December 19, 2020 had already confirmed Ammishaddai’s elevation.

Deep throats say another person had already being penciled for the position of Commissioner-General but, in the interest of the government and party, that name was hushed after news went public that the slot had been given to Ammishaddai.

The fact that some of the policies under his watch and the crude way it was communicated and implemented pitched the business and trading community against the government of  the day is one unresolved challenge.

Another group of agitators are thriving business owners who have sacrificed and sponsored the party over the decades but their businesses have dwindled over the last few years and they have reason to blame the GRA for the continuous losses.