Until his appointment, Mr Crentsil served as the Deputy Commissioner in charge of Post Clearance Audit Department.

The handing over ceremony was held at the Headquarters of the Customs Division of the GRA.

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Key among the tasks of the new Commissioner is to achieve the 14 billion cedis set target for the customs division for this year.

This also forms part of the GRA’s overall target of 34.8 billion cedis for 2017; representing a 34 percent increase over 2016’s target.

Mr. Crentsil holds among others an Executive Masters in Business Administration (EMBA-Finance) from the University of Ghana Business School.

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He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant Ghana (ICA GH) and also a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (Ghana).

He led the Project Management team to the set-up of the Post Clearance Audit with the objective to ensure holistic audit based customs control for trade facilitation and revenue maximization to achieve the goal of optimal revenue collection.