The Graphic Communications Group Ltd (GCGL) and the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) have pledged to deepen the relationship between them towards the development of the metropolis.
The Zonal Business Manager (Ash/BA/Northern Regions), GCGL, Benjamin Tsatsu Korsinah, expressed the organisation’s commitment to the new Chief Executive and the assembly towards the progress of the area.
“Basically, we are here to express our total commitment to you as the leader of this powerful city of Kumasi so that we can together better the lot of the people,” he stressed.
Visit, mission
Mr Korsinah said that when he led a delegation to pay a courtesy call on the KMA Chief Executive, Richard Ofori-Agyeman Boadi, last Thursday, to congratulate him on his assumption of office.
He was accompanied by Senior Finance/Administration Officer, GCGL, Christian Nouchie, and an Executive Member, Ashanti Regional Vendors Association, Stephen Asante.
He mentioned that the visit was to express GCGL’s commitment to strengthening the partnership, saying, “We want to see how we can also assist and support everything you intend to do as a leader towards a successful end”.
As a state media organisation with primary responsibility for championing the government’s development agenda, he assured him that GCGL would be truthful and accurate in its reportage on the metropolitan assembly for their mutual benefit.
Important step
Mr Boadi welcomed the team and said, as a media practitioner himself, strengthening the partnership between the two institutions would be an important step towards the progress of the area.
He noted that GCGL, since its inception, had played a crucial role towards the progress of KMA by highlighting critical issues for them to be addressed, “If there are shortcomings and inefficiencies in our governance system, it is the media, particularly the Daily Graphic, that brings it into the limelight”.
To this end, he said there was a need for both institutions to collaborate and do more to enhance the Kumasi metropolis and position it well in terms of development for the benefit of the people.
He used the occasion to commend the management and staff of the GCGL for working hard over the years to hold on to the enviable record as the most trusted news brand in the nation.
Potential
The Mayor further said the area had so much potential but required ideas and vision to drive the potential had been lacking for so many years, and added that they already had a huge human resource base and arable land that can transform the local economy and create jobs.
“What is currently left is the kind of ideas to push the development agenda of the metropolis to position Kumasi as the second largest city in the country,” he said, and further expressed concern that Kumasi was still congested as the city was not planned to meet the demands of now.
“So, it means that we now have to look at how we will meet the demands of today and what we expect in the next 30 to 50 years.
So, one of the things as Mayor I want to do is to make sure that we provide spaces for vehicular movements,” he stated.
