Waive tax on timber importation

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• Efo 10 years ago

  GHANA IMPORTING TIMBER. OH! MOTHER GHANA WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR LEADERS WITHOUT VISION FOR SUCH THING TO HAPPEN TO OUR DEAR COUNTRY

  GHANA IMPORTING TIMBER. OH! MOTHER GHANA WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR LEADERS WITHOUT VISION FOR SUCH THING TO HAPPEN TO OUR DEAR COUNTRY

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• United Ghana 10 years ago

  It took me a while to make sense of this article, simply because, the notion of GH importing timber seemed nonsensical. It's unbelievable. You're right, it's visionless leadership. What future does GH have?

  It took me a while to make sense of this article, simply because, the notion of GH importing timber seemed nonsensical. It's unbelievable. You're right, it's visionless leadership. What future does GH have?

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• G. K. Berko 10 years ago

  Where was this guy when our local trees were wantonly and illegally extracted. I wish there were much higher tariffs on those Wood imports to teach him and his cohorts some hard lessons.
  
  All he is maneuvering to gain is ...
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  Where was this guy when our local trees were wantonly and illegally extracted. I wish there were much higher tariffs on those Wood imports to teach him and his cohorts some hard lessons.
  
  All he is maneuvering to gain is lower his costs to maximize his profits from doing that business. There is no chance he would lead a campaign for his group to reduce the price of imported wood any significantly to benefit the end-use Consumers, should the Government agree to lower or eliminate those taxes.
  
  Either way, I would want the price to be so prohibitive to all, and the profit for these Traders so marginal that they would not even be able to sustain their Business. Then, they would all join the consumers and the Forestry personnel to find a lasting cessation to that habit of idiotic, selfish, greedy and often illegal exploitation of our local Forest trees.
  
  Our forebears shed their blood, and risked their lives, to keep our Forests around for us to enjoy and pass them on to our posterity. Our Generation of 'greedy bastards' then comes along to rapaciously, moronically graze most of our Forests down for instant wealth that is only transient. And now, we are shamelessly begging the Government to set aside the taxes needed for rehabilitating the Forests?
  
  This guy and his group need Public spanking. And any Government Official or Parliamentarian that supports him also must qualify for severe spanking, as well!
  
  Could he tell how much help has he ever given to re-establishing our Forests? How much of reforestation assistance has he offered with his fat profits, thus far?
  
  You are all a massive disgrace to the Nation!
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• G. K. Berko 10 years ago

  The loss of our Forest Trees, because of which we are now importing WOOD, not Sardines, Milk, Steel or iPhones, WOOD! WOOD! WOOD! tells all about our most idiotic profligate, never-do-well habits.
  
  All we know is flapping ...
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  The loss of our Forest Trees, because of which we are now importing WOOD, not Sardines, Milk, Steel or iPhones, WOOD! WOOD! WOOD! tells all about our most idiotic profligate, never-do-well habits.
  
  All we know is flapping our big mouths and lips as being so, so, enlightened!!! Enlightened my foot! This very situation with our Forests indicts us all, especially our megalomaniacal intelligentsia that dares ridicules others for speaking or writing English poorly but doesn't know any better in helping organize our Country to protect, preserve and maintain sustained Forest resources forever.
  
  Our Forestry Commission has since the few decades been nothing but one more Political tool for the few elite Politicians and their cronies to suppress the real facts on the ground that have led us to this painful end of having to import WOOD.
  
  It is most hollow and shallow for our Celebrities as well living Cities to wish for the best and biggest of Mansions but not care to be involved in the crusade to turn things around for the better in our Forests.
  
  It is such a shame that as our Neighbors like Burkina Faso have been increasingly expanding their afforestation programs to own larger and larger Forest cover, and we have been simply consuming avariciously, unregulated, uncontrolled almost all our Forests, both Natural and Artificial.
  
  I wept like a baby when I witnessed all the Teak Plantations that I personally helped establish in our Forest Reserves in the Afram Headwaters and Opro Forest Reserves wiped out, without any systematic regeneration. The Plantation Areas had been invaded by Grass like never before, as far down south as at Abofour, in the Ashanti Region, some 34 miles to Kumasi.
  
  The blame could be spread around all stakeholders. But I fault the Governments we have had in recent times for the massive neglect of Forestry in Ghana to bring us to this precipice. It is an indelible scar on our Nationhood and as Citizens of this World.
  
  We have failed our young and the Nation. And we deserve to pay for it in any terms, especially in our finances, since it was mainly to bolster the same that we neglected commonsense.
  
  Surely, the high prices of Wood would reduce the number of Houses we could build, Houses may be more expensive to build or purchase, and Rent would go up. Well, that is exactly the only thing that may make us reconsider our inimical behavior, and pressure our Politicians to set things right about our Forests.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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