{"id":385507,"date":"2017-12-22T14:40:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=385507"},"modified":"2017-12-22T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T14:41:46","slug":"nana-addo-nominates-john-mbro-as-new-deputy-md-for-gwcl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=385507","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo nominates John Mbro as new Deputy MD for GWCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has nominated John Kwaning Mbroh as the Deputy Managing Director in-charge-of Finance and Administration for the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL).<\/p>\n<p>A letter from the Presidency urged the GWCL Board Chairman to \u201ctake steps to have the Board of Directors regularize the appointment.<\/p>\n<p>The GWCL was recently the subject of some tensions over the supposed proposal to\u00a0appoint\u00a0a third Deputy Managing Director in charge of Special Projects.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU) argued that the appointment was needless and a duplication of roles.<\/p>\n<p>PUWU\u00a0said the utility company should instead be taking strategic steps to \u201creduce the bureaucratic layers at the top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company currently has a Managing Director, a Deputy Managing Director for Operations, a Deputy Managing Director for Finance and Administration, a Chief Manager for Operations, a Chief Manager for Water Resources a Chief Manager for Projects, Planning &amp; Development and Manager for Projects.<\/p>\n<p>But the Board Chairman of the Company, Alexander Afenyo Markin, on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Citi FM, offered tangible reasons why the appointment was necessary, and does not constitute a duplication of roles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-385510\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/76342980-24d9-4134-83d5-768c586e4786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/76342980-24d9-4134-83d5-768c586e4786.jpg 756w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/76342980-24d9-4134-83d5-768c586e4786-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has nominated John Kwaning Mbroh as the Deputy Managing Director in-charge-of Finance and Administration for the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL). A letter from the Presidency urged the GWCL Board Chairman to \u201ctake steps to have the Board of Directors regularize the appointment. The GWCL was recently the subject of some tensions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":385515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3,242],"class_list":["post-385507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-water-company-limited"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385507","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=385507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}