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The US branch of the Columbus Nuclear Power Plant in Ohio praised the decision to appoint Dr. Alexander Adusei.
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The government has appointed a director for the Keta seaport in the Volta region, which is yet to be built.
A letter of appointment dated March 19, 2019 and signed by the Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiama, congratulated Dr. Alexander Adusei, a lawyer from the University of Ohio.
He was also president of the subsidiary of the NPP Columbus Ohio in the United States.
The minister asked the president of Ghana's ports and ports authorities to "take the necessary steps to give effect" to the appointment.
Deputy Minister of Transport Titus Glover justified his decision by explaining that the director would "supervise the ground work" and act as a "liaison" to "engage the consultant, the architects and the community".
But Keta MP Richard Quarshigah is bewildered and says the meeting is "disconcerting" and "absurd".
"It can be It's as if the Ghana Education Service sent a head teacher to a community where there was actually no school, no teacher, and no one else. student or student, "he said in a press release.
He called the appointment "maddening" and highlighted the problem of financial losses for the state.
The seaport of Keta exists – on paper. The President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has signed an executive instrument declaring the Keta coastline as land designated for a seaport.
The proposed port of Keta should be built around Lake Volta in Kedzi town, Keta municipality.
The seaport would be added to the two existing ones, Takoradi in the western region and Tema in the Greater Accra region.
Ghana's port authorities had signed a memorandum of understanding with a private investor, Diamond Cement Ghana Limited, for the construction of the port of Keta.
According to MP Keta, the government is struggling to find an investor for the project. He said Ghana has only four directors for two ports and one director for another.
Photo: Richard Quarshigah is NDC MP for the Keta constituency in the Volta region.
Richard Quarshigah called the latest addition of "rape" alarming resources and enumerated the terms of service titled "Administrator" whose retention, according to him, at least 100,000 cedis per month.
The rights, he says, include a fully furnished official residence, a 4×4 and a driver, free fuel, a car maintenance allowance, a gardener and maids.
He was not finished. The director will also receive life insurance, free medical care for his family and children under 21, free communications, a business allowance and entertainment allowances.
The NDC deputy, while promising to support the port of Keta, called on the president to overturn the decision "in the name of God".
PRESS STATEMENT OF THE HON. RICHARD QUASHIGAH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE CONSTITUTION OF KETA TO THE APPOINTMENT OF A DIRECTOR OF IMAGINARY PORT OF KETA SEA
04/01/19
Hello ladies and gentlemen of the press. We invited you here this morning for an affair that caused consternation in the municipality of Keta.
Last Thursday, social media was flooded with information that the president, through the Minister of Transport, has appointed a private lawyer, Dr. Alexander Y. Edusei Jnr. as director for the Keta port. The letter of appointment of March 19th 2019, which we have seen after our audit, proves that the President has indeed made such an appointment while a seaport, as they say, does not exist in Keta.
Having a seaport in Keta is a cherished dream of the people of Keta and its environs, as it will automatically result in a positive socio-economic transformation of the region; give it back its past glory and especially stop the ugly devil of unemployment, unleashing and devouring what remains a pale shadow of Keta, then proud and beautifully rich, which was then the commercial hub of Ghana.
We, the people of Keta and its environs, would be congratulated and applaud His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana, who had built a fully operational port in the area before appointing a director. .
Unfortunately, there is no seaport in Keta for which a director is needed. In fact, this could be perceived as an attempt to ridicule and mock the inhabitants of the region by the president, the current father of our homeland.
This disconcerting situation can be compared to the Ghana Education Service sending a head teacher to a community where, in reality, there is no school, no teachers and, in this case, no students and no students.
As far as we know, President Akuffo Addo signed an executive instrument earlier this year, declaring the Keta coastline as the port of Keta. This news has been greeted by Keta natives with a sigh of hope as it will mean steps towards creating future jobs for young people in particular and with the benefits that flow from it.
We are also aware that Ghanaian port authorities have followed the legal procedures necessary to acquire the port project area, which will include a commercial port area and a marina area, also called a marina.
At the moment we are talking, we do not know if the government has found a serious investor for the construction of the port of Keta, apart from the interest shown by Diamond Cement Company, which dates back to 2014 in the construction of a pier to facilitate the transport of clinker activities of the Diamond Cement Company and the transport of salt, also operated by one of its subsidiaries in the enclave of Keta.
To our knowledge, the memorandum of understanding between the government and investors (Diamond Cement) has been shocked because the investor is uncomfortable with certain clauses inherent in the MOU.
It should be noted that a conditional approval given to Diamond Cement by the previous government was declared void by Mr. Paul Ansah, currently one of the two managing directors of the Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority in 2017, after the entry into office of the leader of the NPP. government.
The government led by the nuclear power plants then resumed contact with the investors (Diamond Cement), which resulted in the memorandum of understanding with which Diamond Cement had problems. Since then, nothing has happened except a visit to the project site planned for Kedzi in Keta by the board of directors headed by the chairman of the board, Mr. Peter Mac Manu, in August 2018.
There is no indication that, other than the owners of Diamond Cement, the government has found other investors interested in the proposed Keta Port project. It is therefore not only absurd and infuriating to appoint a director for a nonexistent seaport of Keta with the status of director of the Tema and Takoradi ports, but also to cause a voluntary financial loss to the state.
In the meantime, there are currently four port managers for the two existing ports operating in the country's ports, namely the ports of Tema and Takoradi. Indeed, two of these administrators are redundant. If nothing were done, why would the president not appoint one of the dismissed directors to the post of director of the imaginary Keta port rather than appoint Mr. Edusei, bringing the number of port managers to five, then only two are needed. Maybe this novelty is yet another "presidential initiative".
This appointment is unnecessary and constitutes a rape on the resources of the GPHA and the Ghanaian taxpayer.
Maintaining one portmaster per month would cost between one hundred and twenty thousand and one hundred and fifty thousand Ghanaian cedis.
I am told that a port manager in Ghana has the right to:
- official residence fully furnished,
- A four-wheeled vehicle drives (a vehicle with a driver),
- free fuel,
- Car maintenance allowance
- a gardener
- Domestic servants
- free medical care for the director, his wife and children under 21
- the director as a person is insured
- free communication
- entertainment allowance
- professional allowance
- salary between twenty thousand and twenty-five thousand cedis.
The above list represents the benefits of Dr. Edusei, director appointed by President Nana Akuffo Addo for the nonexistent Keta port.
Ladies and gentlemen, I, Richard Quashigah, MP for Keta on behalf of the people of Keta Municipality, in the name of God, solemnly plead with President Akufo Addo to reconsider the decision. abominable of an appointment.
We wish to have a port at Keta, which is why we applauded him when he issued an executive instrument describing the coastline of our beloved Keta as a seaport.
Since the day when GPHA officials showed us the artistic impressions of Keta Harbor three months ago at the British Council in Accra, we were constantly dreaming of a real functional Keta port.
We are sad to note that this glorious dream was turned upside down by a brutal shock with the last gesture of His Excellency the President.
Once again, we call on the President, Nana Akuffo Addo, to bring smiles to the faces of the people of Keta Municipality, adopting fruitful, pragmatic and practical approaches to realize Keta's dream of a seaport.
We thank the media for your solidarity and all the well-intentioned people of our homeland.
God bless the municipality of Keta!
May God bless the Volta region!
May God bless our homeland, Ghana!
May God bless all those who remain faithful to the aspirations of our people!
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