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Reactivate PWC, SCC and SHC
Winneba (C/R), April 11, GNA- The government has been urged
to reactivate three major state owned companies which have
not been functioning actively for decades now, to create
adequate employments for millions of Ghanaians currently
yearning for jobs.
The companies are the Public Workers Department (PWD), the
State Housing Corporation (SHC) and the State Construction
Corporation (SCC).
The call came from the Right Reverend Bishop Dr. Godfred
Zormelo, a Senior Clergyman of the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church, during a special Easter interaction
with the press at Winneba on Saturday.
Rt. Rev. Dr. Zormelo charged Ghanaians to erase from their
minds the perception that the state-owned companies cannot
be efficient and effective if even managed by qualified
technocrats.
He said what was seriously lacking in the management of
state companies is effective and uncompromising monitoring
machinery that would ensure that management of these
companies did the right things.
The Senior Clergyman said a good number of Ghanaians who
have had the opportunity to visit some Asian countries often
compared Malaysia with Ghana because “we started on the same
note with Malaysia.”
He reminded such people that the immense successes the
country had chalked over the year was mainly due to the
sustained effective and efficient running of their
state-owned agriculture and other economic industries and
not the total reliance on private entrepreneurs.
This way, Rt. Rev. Dr. Zormelo maintained, Malaysia had been
able to curb unemployment because its vast state industries
were still in a position of absorbing the ever-increasing
unemployment rate.
He recalled the good works of PWC, SCC and SHC in the early
part of Ghana’s independence and expressed the hope that the
government could re-activate and quip the three inactive
state establishments to reduce unemployment challenges
confronting the nation.
Rt. Rev. Dr. Zormelo, expressed the belief that when revived
the PWC and SHC could conveniently take up the
rehabilitation of government buildings and put up affordable
housing units for Ghanaians whiles the SCC could also deal
with other construction activities.
GNA
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