CEPS being restructured

Elubo (Western Region) 12 Aug ?99

The Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) is being restructured to make it efficient.

Under it, corrupt, lazy and undisciplined officials would be " weeded out".

Nii Okaine Adjei, Commissioner of CEPS, announced this at separate durbars with personnel of the service at Elubo, Jewi Wharf and New Town, and called on such officers to change for the better, saying, "there is no room for them".

He advised the personnel to work hard and be honest, loyal and patriotic.

Mr Eric Totimeh, officer-in-charge of Jewi Wharf, appealed to the commissioner for a boat for effective patrol duties on the Abbey Lagoon.

At New Town, the commissioner inspected offices and barracks under construction for CEPS.

Meanwhile, Nii Adjei has ordered the seizure of two Yamaha outboard motors found in a boat at Nyame Bekyere village, reportedly being used by smugglers.

The village has become an entry point for a car stealing syndicate operating between Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire.