The Programmes Manager of the Ghana Integrity Initiative has reiterated calls for the removal of embattled Council of State member and Board Member of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority Eunice Jacqueline Asomah-Hinneh.
It follows an investigative report by the Officeof the Special Prosecutor (OSP) which found her company, Labianca Foods, to have through influence-peddling, underpaid taxes and evaded them in some instance with the connivance of customs officials.
Even though the company has refunded in excess of one million cedis in monies thought to have been lost through the unmerited advance ruling in benchmark values, there have been calls for the Special Prosecutor to take a step further.
Programmes Manager at the Ghana Integrity Initiative, Mary Awelanah Addah, says Eunice Asomah-Hinneh should be removed from her role on the Board of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority and the Council of State as investigations continue into the matter.
“OSP says because she is a Board Member and Council of State member, she has positional power to influence the outcomes of some of those custom rulings that were in her favour and we believe that looking at the circumstances and also other information and allegations in the past which are currently in court, that she was importing things and wrongfully classifying them.
“Though these allegations have not just started they have been there for a long time so this person should be interested and the appointing authority should even be more worried.
“The lady should step aside for her own good. If not, the president should be able to remove her from her board and we are not departing from that. The fight against corruption we have realised that unseen hands continue to influence the process and so when the OSP through his investigative reports is citing some of these unseen hands, we have no business not believing him, particularly when the information out there suggests as such,” she indicated.
By Felix Anim-Appau|Onuaonline.com
