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President Akufo-Addo, therefore, commended the National Communications Authority and the Ghana Revenue Authority for taking steps to guarantee the revenues of government, and, also, ensure that regulators and telecommunication operators work together to this end.
In execution of the protocols for the Computer Emergency Response Team and the Revenue Assurance and Traffic Monitoring Centre, the President indicated that “we should see to the transfer of knowledge to enhance learning and the acquisition of skills by Ghanaians to man this project.”
As co-Chair of the 2030 United Nations Advocates Group of Eminent Personalities for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), he indicated that these two projects fit directly into the SDGs.
“The creation of a state of the art, well-resourced cybersecurity response centre, such as the NCA-CERT, is key to attaining some of these goals. We have committed ourselves to build a resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation so we can attain Goal No. 9, which ‘addresses three important aspects of sustainable development: infrastructure, industrialization and innovation’,” the President added.
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He, thus, urged other critical sectors of our economy, especially the energy, transport and utility sectors, to collaborate with the National Cyber Security Centre to develop their computer emergency response units, as well to deal with any eventuality which may occur.
“As we commission these two essential facilities, I am charging the Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority, through the Minister of Finance, to continue to develop and roll out new and innovative ways to broaden Ghana’s tax net,“ President Akufo-Addo indicated.
He congratulated the board, management and staff of the National Communications Authority (NCA) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), and their respective Ministers for a good job done.
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“The work has just begun, and I trust that with the investments made in both human resource and infrastructure, we will see the results of these soon,” President Akufo-Addo stressed.
