Information reaching this paper indicates that some officers at the Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) Check Point at the Dabala Junction in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region are alleged to have stolen a blue Suzuki Balino vehicle with registration number TG 4042 AI.
The car, with Chassis Number GSAEGC31W00103152 this paper learnt, belongs to Archbishop Dr. Stephen Kwabla Gbeve, the West Africa Director of the World United Evangelical Ministries Alliance, and was sold under the cover of darkness to a BNI officer at the Adidiome District of the Volta Region.
The said vehicle mysteriously got missing at the CEPS check point at Dabala Junction where it was impounded for an expired entry undertaking Letter on October 24 2015.
However, in a letter written to the Central Commissioner of Customs Exercise and Preventive Service, Aflao in the Volta Region, and copied to CEPS check Point -Dabala Junction, CEPS Commissioner- Aflao and CEPS Head office- Accra, Archbishop Dr. Stephen Kwabla Gbeve indicated that, his car was missing while he was away taking steps to renew his entry undertaking letter for the said vehicle.
He stated that, he began a search for his car until October 7, 2016, when he came across the car at a mechanic shop at Sogakope, with a different Registration number, GE115-16.
“According to the fitters, the car was brought by one Adidome District BNI officer, with registration Number GE115-16. I then forwarded and reported the case to the Sogakope District Police Station,” he indicated.
Interestingly, Dr. Gbeve was before the discovery of the missing car, informed by the Customs Officers at the Dabala Junction Check Point that, the car was sent to the Customs Exercise and Preventive Head office in Accra.
His checks at the Customs Exercise and Preventive Head office in Accra revealed no trace of his missing car. “But when I proceed to the Head office, the car was not reported or found,” he stated.
In view of the mysterious circumstances under which the car got missing and the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the car, Archbishop Dr.Gbeve in his letter requested to know whether a car under an expired entry undertaking letter can be washed away without the notice of the owner.
“On which duration, can a car under an expired entry undertaking letter, can be washed away by the CEPS department…. If a car under an expired undertaking letter, can be arrested and washed away without taking documents from the car owner and whether a car can be washed away, from any CEPS office or check point without a public notice.”
According to Dr. Gbeve answers to the above questions would disabuse his mind of the bad perception he and other people have in CEPS.
The man of God, therefore, asked for a speedy response to his letter and a quick investigation into the disappearance of his vehicle.
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