AMA, GCGL pledge mutual collaboration, Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has pledged to work in concert with the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) to advance the development of the Accra metropolis and the rest of the country.
The two entities committed themselves to open their doors to each other for regular consultations and co-operation in the execution of their mandates and vision.
These were the highlights of a meeting between the Chief Executive of the AMA, Mr Alfred O. Vanderpuye, and the Managing Director of the GCGL, Mr Ken Ashiegbey, in Accra yesterday.
The meeting was for the two organisations to strengthen their existing relationship and also explore possible areas of co-operation for their mutual benefit.
In his remarks, Mr Vanderpuye said in bid to improve academic work in schools, the AMA supplied 17,000 dual desks to basic schools within the metropolis last year.
Similarly, the city authority was on course to complete the 38 millennium city school projects it initiated two years ago to end the shift system in schools in Accra and also decongest some of the public schools in the city.
Three of such schools, with 18-unit, three-storey blocks which will be equipped with science laboratories and libraries, are the Ayalolo Cluster of Schools, the Salvation School Complex and the Mamprobi M1 Compound.
Mr Vanderpuye commended the GCGL and its flagship newspaper, the Daily Graphic, for being the vehicle of information to educate Ghanaians on the programmes and activities of the AMA.
“We recognise your contribution to our work and take notice of your constructive criticisms. We want you to know that we listen and this influences our programmes. Our doors are always open,” he said.
Mr Ashiegbey, for his part, said it had always been the objective of the GCGL to lead the crusade for Ghana’s development through dissemination of information.
He added his voice to calls for peaceful elections in 2012, saying, “The election is about electing a chief executive to lead this country and it is not worth a drop of blood.”
The GCGL boss bemoaned the indiscipline in the Ghanaian society and pledged the company’s commitment to champion civic responsibility.
He said it was regrettable that slums were developing all over the city and new residential areas which were expected to maintain prime status were also losing their beauty to slums and urged the AMA to nip the growing trend in the bud before it got out of hand.
He also drew the Mayor’s attention to alleged demands on news vendors at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to pay certain unauthorised amounts or have their structures demolished during the Yuletide.
He said the GCGL had, in the past, reached an agreement with the AMA not to include structures of newspaper vendors in its demolition plans, while plans were being made to brand such places as part of the city’s beautification exercise.
Mr Ashiegbey also appealed to the AMA to reach an amicable settlement with the Advertisers Association of Ghana over outdoor advertising.
The Editor of the Daily Graphic and President of the Ghana Journalists Association, Mr Ransford Tetteh, for his part, observed that it appeared residents of Accra were ignorant of the bye-laws of the AMA.
In that regard, he said, the Daily Graphic would try and serialise the bye-laws to educate residents of the city on their rights and responsibilities.
Mr Vanderpuye and his team later visited the newsroom of the Daily Graphic and interacted with the staff of the Editorial Department.
The two entities committed themselves to open their doors to each other for regular consultations and co-operation in the execution of their mandates and vision.
These were the highlights of a meeting between the Chief Executive of the AMA, Mr Alfred O. Vanderpuye, and the Managing Director of the GCGL, Mr Ken Ashiegbey, in Accra yesterday.
The meeting was for the two organisations to strengthen their existing relationship and also explore possible areas of co-operation for their mutual benefit.
In his remarks, Mr Vanderpuye said in bid to improve academic work in schools, the AMA supplied 17,000 dual desks to basic schools within the metropolis last year.
Similarly, the city authority was on course to complete the 38 millennium city school projects it initiated two years ago to end the shift system in schools in Accra and also decongest some of the public schools in the city.
Three of such schools, with 18-unit, three-storey blocks which will be equipped with science laboratories and libraries, are the Ayalolo Cluster of Schools, the Salvation School Complex and the Mamprobi M1 Compound.
Mr Vanderpuye commended the GCGL and its flagship newspaper, the Daily Graphic, for being the vehicle of information to educate Ghanaians on the programmes and activities of the AMA.
“We recognise your contribution to our work and take notice of your constructive criticisms. We want you to know that we listen and this influences our programmes. Our doors are always open,” he said.
Mr Ashiegbey, for his part, said it had always been the objective of the GCGL to lead the crusade for Ghana’s development through dissemination of information.
He added his voice to calls for peaceful elections in 2012, saying, “The election is about electing a chief executive to lead this country and it is not worth a drop of blood.”
The GCGL boss bemoaned the indiscipline in the Ghanaian society and pledged the company’s commitment to champion civic responsibility.
He said it was regrettable that slums were developing all over the city and new residential areas which were expected to maintain prime status were also losing their beauty to slums and urged the AMA to nip the growing trend in the bud before it got out of hand.
He also drew the Mayor’s attention to alleged demands on news vendors at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to pay certain unauthorised amounts or have their structures demolished during the Yuletide.
He said the GCGL had, in the past, reached an agreement with the AMA not to include structures of newspaper vendors in its demolition plans, while plans were being made to brand such places as part of the city’s beautification exercise.
Mr Ashiegbey also appealed to the AMA to reach an amicable settlement with the Advertisers Association of Ghana over outdoor advertising.
The Editor of the Daily Graphic and President of the Ghana Journalists Association, Mr Ransford Tetteh, for his part, observed that it appeared residents of Accra were ignorant of the bye-laws of the AMA.
In that regard, he said, the Daily Graphic would try and serialise the bye-laws to educate residents of the city on their rights and responsibilities.
Mr Vanderpuye and his team later visited the newsroom of the Daily Graphic and interacted with the staff of the Editorial Department.
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