THE Performing Chief Govt Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Heavy Gear Restricted (GHEL), Mr Mutalib Awal, has pledged to return the corporate to its glory days.
He was talking in Accra on Tuesday on the handing-over held at GHEL head workplace.
Mr Awal mentioned he was committed to the reason for turning the fortunes of the as soon as upon a time financially-resourced establishment.
“I settle for this function not as an individual accolade however as a nationwide responsibility — an obligation to revive, reposition, and reimagine GHEL as a pillar of Ghana’s industrial transformation,” Mr Awal added.
He continued: “GHEL has a proud legacy, and in the present day, we’re poised to put in writing a daring new chapter. As we take the subsequent step ahead, I want to guarantee authorities, industry, and all companions that GHEL is not only again — GHEL is again with a function.”
To spur financial progress and create jobs for Ghanaians, especially the youth, the Ag. Chief Executive Officer mentioned GHEL shared the imaginative and prescient of presidency’s 24-hour economic system.
To this finish, Mr Awal added that GHEL would supply 24-hour entry to important tools companies by way of its mechanisation centres, beginning in key agricultural and industrial hubs like Ejura, Techiman, Krachi East, and Akatsi.
Moreover, Mr Awal acknowledged that GHEL would accomplice with private and non-private sector stakeholders to make sure uninterrupted help for infrastructure, mining, agriculture, and sanitation operations.
Once more, the Ag CEO famous that GHEL would put money into digital infrastructure to facilitate real-time upkeep, tools monitoring, and fast response help throughout all working hours.
Mr Awal reaffirmed GHEL’s readiness to collaborate with some ministries, together with the Ministry of Lands and Pure Sources to make sure the accountable and environment friendly use of heavy equipment in mining, forestry, and land reclamation.
Moreover, he mentioned GHEL would help ongoing initiatives for tools monitoring, re-registration, and sustainable mining practices.
However, the Ag CEO mentioned GHEL was keen to support district assemblies and native authorities with tools leasing, upkeep, and coaching companies to drive sanitation, roads, and rural infrastructure improvement by way of the Ministry of Native Authorities, Decentralisation and Rural Improvement.
“Our mechanisation hubs will function engines of job creation and repair supply in native communities,” Mr Awal mentioned.
Mr Awal mentioned he acknowledges agriculture mechanisation as a key to meals safety, and thus, GHEL was dedicated to increasing entry to tractors, harvesters, and farm implements by way of leasing, installment, and cooperative fashions by way of the Ministry of Meals and Agriculture.
“We are going to work with farmer associations and the Ministry to empower youth and make sure that each district has entry to high quality tools and educated operators,” the AG CEO added.
He famous that GHEL was not only a service supplier however a accomplice in Ghana’s progress, including that “we’re constructing a brand new era of technicians, engineers, and operators. We’re creating jobs, bettering livelihoods, and laying the muse for a contemporary, mechanised, and industrial Ghana.”
“As I tackle this function, I lengthen a hand of partnership to each ministry, company, personal sector accomplice, and civil society organisation. Allow us to collaborate. Allow us to construct. Allow us to ship outcomes for the folks of Ghana.”
For his half, Mr Abass Ridwan Dauda, the previous Ag CEO of GHEL, requested his successor to rely on him.
Earlier than serving because the Ag. CEO of GHEL, Mr Dauda, who was the previous Member of Parliament for Sissala East was the board chairman of GHEL.
BY MALIK SULLEMANA
