Customs Officer Killed In Aflao

Junior Revenue Assistant Musah Abraham, aged 32, died in an accident Thursday morning while escorting some unaccustomed goods intercepted by Customs taskforce at their Torve Checkpoint and then to Aflao Main Office. The Officer was with Aflao Sector Command, Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority. The body of the

deceased has since been transferred to the 37 Military Hospital morgue in Accra following his death at Central Aflao Hospital, where Musah was then rushed to also for treatment. Meanwhile, one Etsei, driver of the Hyundai grace with the registration number GR 6882 09 hired by the Customs officials to transport the goods to the main

office is responding to treatment. The accident occurred around Klikor at about 0430 hours on Thursday, when the vehicle crashed into a foreign truck with the registration number BB6295 parked at the shoulder of the road. The Police said the driver was blinded by the lights from an oncoming vehicle and in the process, ran into the parked

truck which might have developed some faults and had warning triangles also placed behind and in front of it. The Assistant Commissioner Mr Majeed Amandi, Sector Commander, Aflao Customs in an interview regretted the death of the young officer who he said was carrying out an onerous responsibility of preventing revenue loss to the state. He said that Col Kwadwo Damoah (Rtd), the

Commissioner, Customs Division had visited the family of the deceased in Accra to commiserate with them on their loss. The Assistant Commissioner Amandi said the taskforce intercepted items including spare parts, drinks, and various food items being smuggled to places like the Kumasi and the Sunyani and indicated that the goods are

here with us at the Aflao Command to extract duties and penalties on them. He advised traders to also embrace legitimate business and not resort to smuggling goods because the Sector had stepped up its anti-smuggling operations to also suppress smuggling activities saying, unaccustomed goods would be arrested and detained.