Ghana’s Customs has warned car dealers or owners who have uncustomed vehicles in their custody to submit them to Customs for due diligence to be done on them.
The authority says that the usage of uncustomed vehicles is illegal and punishable by law, hence it is prudent to follow right processes.
An uncustomed vehicle is one that hasn’t been dealt through the acceptable customs processes or one that full duties haven’t been paid on them.
Speaking on Eye on Port, a Supervisor at the Vehicle Valuation Unit of the Customs Technical Services Bureau, Justice Njornan Magah Yadjayime, said: “We have a preventive task force that goes around to pick such vehicles.
They are able to detect those that have the chassis number tampered with, to conform with those that have been genuinely cleared by customs. Also, in the case of a genuine chassis, they can tell if full duties have been paid.”