GRA did not meet 2019 target, Prof. Adei lied – Aggrieved staff

Aggrieved staff of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) is asking their management to confess to the public that GRA did not meet it's 2019 annual set target.

GRA Board Chairman, Prof. Stephen Adei in an interview had stated that the state revenue mobilizing agency exceeded its target for 2019, a claim that was widely publicized and celebrated by

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But the workers are threatening to expose the management over what they described as insincerity in announcing the said target.

“How can the Board Chairman with your support, tell the whole world that GRA has met its 2019 annual target, supported this claim with empirical figures and facts, received all the commendations thereafter, had a Thanksgiving service to honour God both in Accra and Kumasi. Can GRA go back to the media and tell the whole world that it lied on the issue of achieving the 2019 annual target?” they wrote.

Meanwhile, in a memo signed by the Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority to its Workers Union over the rate for payment of 2019 bonus, the Acting Commissioner General Rev. Ammishaddai Owusu-Amoah wrote;

“The World over, bonuses are paid on profits and/or the achievement of targets. Since the original target set by the Ministry of Finance was not achieved, staff cannot make a claim for 15% of the annual basic salary. The Board in consideration of what was achieved therefore allocated 10% as a bonus”.

In their written response to the Commissioner-General, they find it unfair how they have been denied access to their full bonuses because the target was not met.

They are worried about the fact that they are unable to access 15% of the annual basic salary because the original target set by the Ministry of Finance was not achieved.

“After all the celebration you come back a few months later (because of the 15% bonus payment to staff) to mean otherwise?" They asked, in a statement copied to the media.

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