Communications Team member of the National Democratic Congress [NDC], Dela Edem, has described members of the New Patriotic Party [NPP] as "greedy" politicians who have developed two [2] stomachs, four [4] hands and four [4] legs, scrambling to have their finger in every pie.

Speaking on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ discussion segment, he called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to engage stakeholders involved in using the new Integrated Customs Information UNI-PASS system to correct every bottle-necks and would-be anomaly.

Dela Edem, insisted that the government of the day could have adopted a more amenable approach prior to the introduction of the UNI-PASS system, since it is a new model.

“...President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should put aside shame, hypocrisy for not appropriately handling the UNI-PASS system by their inability to engage every meaningful stakeholder before rolling it out. Actually, government should not expect every stake-holder to at once welcome the new system when it could likely cause them their daily bread,” he stated.

INTRODUCTION

The UNI-PASS system is a single-window electronic customs clearance system for trade facilitation is to replace West Blue-GCNet system at the country’s borders and ports.

However, some members of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders, who participated in the training and piloting for the implementation of the new Integrated Customs Information UNI-PASS system, say the platform is fraught with many challenges.