The centre, according to the company, is to bring its services such as payment of electricity bills, reporting of electricity faults and illegal connections, applications for new service and separate meter connections closer to the people of Wassa Akropong and adjoining communities stretching from Bawdie to Nkonya and beyond.

In a speech read on his behalf, the Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Ing. Samuel Boakye-Appiah, noted that, the facility was part of eleven such centres commissioned by the company across the country on that same day.

“The total cost of all eleven Business Centres is approximately GHC 6.4million, and this is fully funded by ECG. That comes down to about GHC 582,000 per Centre”, he disclosed.

Mr. Boakye-Appiah further noted that, Wassa Akropong was carefully selected for the location of the business centre, due to its central location and easy access to a number of communities in that enclave.

He said the centre would provide easy access to customers; ensure prompt response to complaints and quick deployment of materials to project sites to speed up service delivery.

The Managing Director highlighted some innovative projects the company was currently implementing; with the prominent amongst them being a mobile Application which will serve as a unified online vending platform for easy payment of post-paid bills and purchase of pre-paid electricity units.

This he noted was currently being piloted, and would be launched before the end of this year.

Mr. Alex Anwobor, acting General Manager of the Company in the Western Region, in his remarks, thanked the Omanhene of the Wassa Amenfi Traditional Area, Tetreteh Okuamuah Sekyi II and his elders for making land available for the construction of the Centre.

He disclosed that sixteen major projects were currently ongoing in the region to improve reliability of power supply.

These include but not limited to the injection of 61 transformers and network improvement, and extension projects in Wassa Akropong, Tarkwa, Sekondi and Takoradi; the reconstruction of the Inchaban substation to improve supply reliability in the Shama enclave, and the construction of a new switching station to improve reliability of supply in the Ahanta West District.

Mr. Anwobor further disclosed that, contracts have been awarded for bush clearing and vegetative control to improve supply quality and stability to the Wassa Akropong area.

The Omanhene of the Wassa Amenfi Traditional area, Tetreteh Okuamuah Sekyi II, who chaired the occasion, commended ECG for the business centre.

He called on the company to consider local content in its staff recruitment for the Centre.

The District Chief Executive for the Wassa Amenfi East District, Mrs. Helena Appiah, said the district has witnessed improvement in electricity supply in the past few months, and commended the company for their efforts.

She appealed to the company to consider upgrading the Business Centre to a District office in the near future.

The Director of Engineering of ECG, Ing. Kojo Obeng, who represented the Managing Director, joined the Omanhene and the DCE to cut the ceremonial tape signifying the official opening of the Centre for business.
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He mentioned the establishment of 15 nuclear farms and 195 out grower farms as some of the immediate measures the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture development had embarked on.

President Mahama said this when he inaugurated and dedicated the Ghavie Aquaculture Company Limited Pilot Shrimp farming project at Ada-Foah in the Greater Accra Region.

The Company, a private initiative between Ghana and Vietnam was incorporated in August 2013.

It is aimed at pioneering and building a shrimp marine culture industry in Ghana that would provide jobs, foreign exchange, and contribute to food security in the country and beyond.

The Ghavie project, which has a hatchery, the first in Ghana and Atlantic Coast of Africa, has the capacity to produce 15 million shrimp post larvae per month, create 2000 jobs for Ghanaians within a period of five years and reduce over dependence on pre-mix fuel for fishing.

President Mahama said government would also support groups and individuals to establish small scale fishing enterprises, and provided with inputs and technical assistance and ready market to increase production.

The President encouraged students especially those on national service to embrace the programme to become job creators and not job seekers as had been the case in the past.

He gave the assurance that surveillance at all the coastal areas would also be strengthened in the country to ward off all unorthodox fishing methods that for some time now, dragged Ghana’s fishing methods to disrepute at the international levels.

Mr Nayon Bilijo, out-going Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, said the use of unorthodox fishing methods had been detrimental to fishery development.

He said the European Union, for example, threatened to ban the importation of fish products from Ghana because of the use of agro-chemicals in fishing, creating panic on the international market.

He gave the assurance that such threats had been reviewed because of government’s fight against the unorthodox practice, which had so far yielded a lot of dividends.

The Minister said the Ministry would establish small scale fish farming for communities throughout the country to create jobs and improve on the protein needs of Ghanaians.

Director and Scientist in-charge of the project, Mr A.K Armah,  said the Ghavie project would work around the clock to become a multi- purpose facility that would do everything independently and locally.

He promised that the company would revolutionalise Aquaculture to provide constant protein and also create numerous jobs for the youth in Ada and the coastal areas of the country.

The Director appealed for the establishment of special school on Aquaculture and promised to provide all the necessary technical advice that would benefit the company and other potential ones in the country.

Paramount Chief of Ada, Nene Abraham Kabu Akuoko appealed to government to continue to bring in investors that would be ready to create job opportunities for the youth of the area and promised to release adequate lands for such ventures.

He said the traditional area abound with a number of natural resources and called for partnership that would lead to development to restrain the youth from migrating to Accra and other urban centres for non-existent jobs

Source: GNA

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