JANUARY 15, 2020

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DAILY HERITAGE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020
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MTN Foundation to give
Ebenezer SHS robotic lab
BY ROSEMOND BOATENG ADDAI
Rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com
•Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful (M), Minister of Communication with members of MTN
Ghana Foundation and Ebenezer SHS boards
MTN GHANA
Foundation, as
part of its focus
areas in health, education
and economic
empowerment, has begun the construction
of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) and
e-Learning Centre for Ebenezer
Senior High School (SHS) in Dansoman
in the Ablekuma West constituency.
The centre, which will equip the
students in the school and other
schools in its environs, will include a
Robotic Laboratory as part of the e-
learning project to help students upgrade
themselves in the
technological designs and innovative
development.
Mr Samuel Koranteng, Corporate
Services Executive of MTN
Ghana, explained that the centre has
a capacity for 100 users and the cost
is about GH¢800,000.00.
According to him, the Dansoman
community is the largest estate
in West Africa with about 20
schools with just one community library,
which, to him, is not the best.
“We looked at the need for such
a project here and also the community
reached out to the Foundation
and sent out our consultants to access
the need and the project and we
realize the library facility in Dansoman,
which is located around the
Keep Fit area, is too small for such a
community and so that is what informed
us the MTN Ghana Foundation
board to take on this
project,” he explained.
Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful, Minister
of Communication, said she
was sure that very soon the young
people in the community would be
building their own robots but without
them being exposed to emerging
technology, it would be difficult
to achieve what one is capable of.
“We are very excited for this
project and looking forward to its
completion in June. There are lots
of computer labs and libraries
around but this will be the first robotic
centre attached to it and it can
serve almost all the western part of
Accra,” she said.
The Communication Minister
pointed out that the challenge she
could foresee was the cost of data
and so the ministry was considering
extending free Wifi to the SHS utilizing
area.
Mr Kofi Mensah, Headmaster of
Ebenezer Senior High School, said
the school was happy for the project
because the books in its library were
outmoded.
He expressed the hope that the
e-library could be used to train the
students as expected.
Jospong generates energy from faecal matter
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The SSGL is a subsidiary of waste
management giants Zoomlion Ghana
Limited and it is into the construction of
liquid waste facilities and treatment of
faecal matter in Ghana.
Through its green revolution programme,
it now successfully generates
about 500 kilowatts of green power,
which may be useful to augment energy
generation in Ghana.
He said similar facilities were being
constructed in Kumasi, Tamale, Takoradi
and Sunyani among other places,
which will provide safe reception and
treatment of liquid waste among others.
Addressing management and staff
of his over forty subsidiary companies,
the elated entrepreneur expressed gratitude
to God, whom he described as his
Chief Executive Officer, the advisory
board, management and staff of his
companies.
He said it was in 2006 that God revealed
the vision to him to provide solutions
to existing waste problems in
Ghana.
"It was then that we started innovating
various technologies and mechanisms,
which are now providing an
integrated approach to waste management
which has in turn replaced the
hitherto haphazard solid waste disposal
and liquid waste that was dislodged directly
into the sea, leading to Ghana
being scored 7th dirtiest country in the
world.
Dr. Agyepong recounted how
Zoomlion was formed and got the support
of former President John Agyekum
Kuffour for the tricycle concept, which
has evolved to become the leading waste
management company in West Africa.
The waste management entrepreneur
said his focus now was to build modern
waste management technologies and infrastructure
across Ghana to help
achieve the President's vision of making
Accra and Ghana the cleanest in Africa.
He expressed gratitude to all former
presidents of the Fourth Republic, including.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-
Addo, who have all shown keen interest
in the waste management agenda of the
company for the country.
"In responding to Nana Akufo-
Addo's vision to
make Accra the
cleanest city in
Africa, we researched
and developed
the IRECOP
concept which
processes over 400
tonnes of waste a
day and currently
operating in Accra
and being replicated
in the regions.
He commended
the Chairman of the
Church of Pentecost,
Apostle Eric
K. Nyamekye, and
members of the
church for the effective collaboration in
ensuring a clean environment through a
project dubbed ‘Environmental Care’
campaign last year.
He also thanked the National Chief
Imam, Dr Sheik Nuhu Sarabutu, and all
other Imams for their prayers for the
Jospong brand.
Rev. Dr Sam Adeyemi, a renowned
Nigerian preacher and leadership coach,
advised Ghanaians to take responsibility
of identifying and setting goals with regard
to current trends to dealing with
their problems because change was inevitable.
He said one must set goals strategically
and believe in them “and God will
make them come to fruition”.
He urged leaders never to run away
from problems but rather run towards
them and find solutions for their change.
A Commissioner of Police (COP),
Nathan Kofi Boakye, advised leaders to
have succession plans and ensure that
they identified leaders among their staff
and groom them to take over from them
at the right time.
He asked leaders to avoid protester
and prisoner types of staff because
“they do not bring improvement to their
organizations”.