TALKING POINTS OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF SIGA ON THE BREAKFAST MEETING BETWEEN NITA, OFFICE OF HEAD OF CIVIL SERVICE, SIGA AND SPECIFIED ENTITIES AT ALISA HOTEL ACCRA ON 1ST AND 2ND NOVEMBER, 2022. Ministers and Deputy Ministers Head of the Civil Service Ag. Director General, NITA CEOs of Specified Entities Heads of IT
Historically, our nation has had difficulties in fashioning out a comprehensive strategic approach to managing the SOE sector. Conflicting objectives, dispersed monitoring systems, lack of transparency and weak lines of accountability have been symptomatic of Ghana’s underperforming SOE sector. Upon our assumption of office, back in January 2017, we had to spend a significant amount of our time addressing the challenges we inherited from our predecessors, which almost crippled the SOEs. These included legacy debts, low working capital, weak corporate governance structures, multiplicity of stakeholder policy directives with overlapping and conflicting objectives, and dispersed monitoring systems.
As the Director General, I have built a team of experts with excellent pedigree in their professional careers who have ensured that the process involved in getting to the signing of these contracts and the follow-ups of the monitoring and evaluation, builds respectable relationships that produces a win-win situation for the entities as well as the government.
In the President’s last address, he stated that he was embarking on a nine-day official working visit to France, Belgium and South Africa as part of efforts to ensure the nation’s post covid economic recovery is fast and sustained. He added that the update had been pre-recorded prior to leaving the country. He further expressed
The Director General of the State Interests and Governance Authority, Stephen Asamoah Boateng has called on CEOs and corporate Ghana to adopt leadership approaches that balances competing interests to enable their businesses thrive beyond the devastating effect of COVID. Delivering the keynote speech at the 5th CEOs Summit at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City
