Deputy Minister of Finance, Kwaku Kwarteng has admonished the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF) to refrain from taking an entrenched position against the government’s decision to replace GCNet and West Blue with UNIPASS to manage Ghana’s port services.
This admonishing from the Member of Parliament for Obuasi West in the Ashanti Region comes in reaction to the opposition of the freight forwarders to government’s new arrangement at the port.
The Chairman of the GIFF had earlier indicated that this new port arrangement effected by the government has not in any way enhanced their work. They, therefore, called on the government to fully suspend this new arrangement with immediate effect.
However, speaking on Accra-based Peace FM, in response to the calls made by the freight forwarders, the Deputy Minister of Finance likened the entrenched position of the GIFF to an opposition party objecting policies of an incumbent government.
He indicated that such a pre-conceived and entrenched stance of the freight forwarders will not help matters in finding an amicable solution to their problem.
“If you are a freight forwarder, your work is to help importers clear goods from the port. The new arrangements made by the government that you are opposing like an opposition party claiming all the arrangement is not good won’t help matters. When you take such a position, it won’t help matters when we sit to resolve the issue because I will begin with a pre-conceived mind on your bad entrenched position,” Kwaku Kwarteng expressed
