{"id":316035,"date":"2017-05-02T16:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=316035"},"modified":"2017-05-02T16:57:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T16:57:06","slug":"asamoah-boateng-appointed-executive-chair-of-state-enterprise-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=316035","title":{"rendered":"Asamoah Boateng appointed Executive Chair of State Enterprise Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has appointed Stephen Asamoah Boateng, a former Minister of State, as the Executive Chairman of the State Enterprise Commission (SEC).<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by Alhaj Abdul-Samed Abubakar, the Chief of Administration of the SEC\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_702630015\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>, said Mr Asamoah Boateng\u2019s appointment took effect from\u00a0April 24, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.\u00a0Asamoah Boateng replaces Dr. Camynta Baezie at the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The statement called on State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to cooperate with the new Executive Chairman to make the SOEs more effective and efficient in contributing their quota to the socio-economic development of the country, and also to realize the vision of the President for the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC is mandated, among other responsibilities; \u201cto facilitate performance management in SOEs and other prescribed bodies, within the framework of Government policy, to ensure that they operate efficiently, effectively and profitably, thereby contributing towards the socio-economic development of Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They are to review the mission, objectives, programmes and plans of the prescribed bodies, and to monitor as well as evaluate their performance in relation to agreed targets.<\/p>\n<p>They are also to undertake operational and managerial audit, where necessary, with a view to improving the performance of the prescribed bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, they are to advise Government on the criteria for the establishment of new State enterprises and where\u00a0necessary advice the sector ministries on State Enterprises rationalization and rehabilitation programmes.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has appointed Stephen Asamoah Boateng, a former Minister of State, as the Executive Chairman of the State Enterprise Commission (SEC). A statement signed by Alhaj Abdul-Samed Abubakar, the Chief of Administration of the SEC\u00a0on Tuesday, said Mr Asamoah Boateng\u2019s appointment took effect from\u00a0April 24, 2017. Mr.\u00a0Asamoah Boateng replaces Dr. Camynta Baezie at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,171],"tags":[8,6751,3,6752],"class_list":["post-316035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","tag-akufo-addo","tag-asamoah-boateng","tag-ghana-news","tag-state-enterprise-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}