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The standard-bearer of the Democratic National Congress (NDC) has communicated his intentions to remove the ban on the importation of recovered vehicles if the party wins power in the next general election.
John Dramani Mahama believes that this will improve people’s livelihoods in the local auto industry.
“We will review the 2020 Customs Amendment Act … to remove the law that prohibits the importation of recovered vehicles,” he said on September 7.
Parliament, in March, passed the 2020 Customs (Amendment) Bill, an amendment to the 2015 Customs Act (Law 891).
The amendment prohibited the importation of salvaged and crashed motor vehicles, which include vehicles wrecked, destroyed, and physically damaged by collision, fire, water, or other events in the country.
But speaking at the launch of the NDC manifesto ahead of the 2020 elections, former President John Mahama indicated that the duties paid for importing vehicles at the country’s ports will also be lowered to help increase the cost of doing business by part of the dealers.
“This is to save the local auto industry so that our people at Suame magazine, Konkompe, continue to work and earn a decent living,” he explained at the University of Professional Studies in Accra.
However, he urged multinational vehicle assembly plants not to bypass local players while running their business in the country.
The manifesto has a thematic dubbing; ‘People’s Manifesto: Jobs, Prosperity and More’.
