29/04/08
Story: Mary Mensah
A 20-year-old man, who was found with a knife and a naked boy about four years old at the beach late in the night, is in police custody.
The suspect, Daniel Andoh, alias Paa Dan, whose behaviour attracted two men who were also at the beach, could not explain what he was doing there at the time of the night and whether the boy was his son.
According to the Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Inspector Dompreh??????, on Monday April 21, 2008, two men from Chorkor Lante Maami went to the beach at about 11pm and while sitting on the sand, they spotted a young man who reportedly looked jittery and was looking round as if to make sure nobody else was there.
He said the two men suspected Paa Dan was up to something, so they drew closer to him and as they approached the scene they saw the naked boy sitting on a stone shivering.
The PRO said when the suspect saw the two men, he attempted to run away but he was caught and when he was asked what he was doing there at that time with the boy, he claimed the boy was his son and that his wife had gone to the market to sell used clothing, so he was waiting for her.
His explanation did not go down well with the two who apprehended him and handed him over to the Chorkor police.
During interrogation ,he told the police that he lived at Mallam, near Accra, but he found the boy loitering near the Kaneshie market, so he picked him up.
He could , however, not explain to the police why he took the boy to the beach and what he was doing with the knife.
Inspector Dompreh said the police caused an announcement to be made on some of the radio stations in the city and one Kwabena Darku, a shoemaker at the Total Filling Station at Kaneshie, came and identified the boy as Kofi Asomani, his son, who had been reported missing.
He explained that Kofi went missing three days earlier while playing with his friends around the filling station and when all efforts to trace him proved futile, he made a report to the Kaneshie Police and later he heard his son had been found at Chorkor.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
MANTRAC GHANA TO PROMOTE CATERPILLAR'S ROAD CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT (BUSINESS PAGE)
24/04/08
MANTRAC Ghana, dealers of heavy duty equipment is to promote Caterpillar’s (CAT’s) comprehensive range of road contruction equipment by launching an integrated road construction campaign in Accra.
The aim of the campaign is to highlight the complete package of machines for road construction and the advantages of CAT machines and Mantrac support.
According to the National Sales Manager, Mr Ahmed Saad, the geography of Ghana, its size, diversity and dispersion gave roads a special position in the integration of the national economy.
He said that roads particularly served rural areas where the majority of the people lived than any other dwelling place.
The National Sales Manager said the road network infrastructure had an effective role of contributing to the social and economic development of Ghana.
He indicated that the network performance had continued to grow due to government efforts of building new reliable road networks to maintain the existing ones.
“In collaboration with government’s efforts Caterpillar and Mantrac its sole authorised dealer in Ghana understands how success depends on the reliability of the machines used in the road construction industry”, he said.
Mr Saad said caterpillar motor graders and asphalt compactors have long been working with the road construction industry in Ghana and have played and continue to play a key role in infrastructure development.
He said Mantrac and Caterpillar had acquired decades of experience in the road construction industry offering a complete range of road construction machines supported by an outstanding network and exceptional financial incentives.
He mentioned that Caterpillar was the only manufacturer to offer the complete package of road building solutions; from earthmoving and soil stabilisation, to paving and finishing, through road rehabilitation equipment needs, and ensuring that road contractors will not look further for their needs of road construction equipment.
Mr Saad said each machine supplied is a class leader, enhanced with best-in-the-industry feature and its full line of equipment include Rotary Mixers, Track Type, Tractors & Loaders, Motor Graders, Soil Compactors, Cold Planers, Asphalt Pavers, Asphalt Compactors, ensuring that its customers achieve consistently high levels of productivity and reliability, and an outstanding return on their investment.
He said the antecedent to the success story of Tractor and Equipment when it took its new name Mantrac.
He said the new name carried with it a renewed pledge of excellence, professionalism and a corporate mindset of a responsible partnership in service delivery in Ghana.
The National Sales Manager said the Mantrac Group was recently awarded the exclusive right to distribute and service O&K’s range of heavy mining hydraulic excavators. The deal is part of a global agreement that will allow caterpillar dealerships in over 40 countries to sell and service the equipment.
“The New Development will bring the world’s most successful manufacturing of heavy mining diesel and electric hydraulic excavators together with the world’s biggest manufacturer of construction and mining products, both of which can now be sold and service by the Mantrac Group”, he stated.
MANTRAC Ghana, dealers of heavy duty equipment is to promote Caterpillar’s (CAT’s) comprehensive range of road contruction equipment by launching an integrated road construction campaign in Accra.
The aim of the campaign is to highlight the complete package of machines for road construction and the advantages of CAT machines and Mantrac support.
According to the National Sales Manager, Mr Ahmed Saad, the geography of Ghana, its size, diversity and dispersion gave roads a special position in the integration of the national economy.
He said that roads particularly served rural areas where the majority of the people lived than any other dwelling place.
The National Sales Manager said the road network infrastructure had an effective role of contributing to the social and economic development of Ghana.
He indicated that the network performance had continued to grow due to government efforts of building new reliable road networks to maintain the existing ones.
“In collaboration with government’s efforts Caterpillar and Mantrac its sole authorised dealer in Ghana understands how success depends on the reliability of the machines used in the road construction industry”, he said.
Mr Saad said caterpillar motor graders and asphalt compactors have long been working with the road construction industry in Ghana and have played and continue to play a key role in infrastructure development.
He said Mantrac and Caterpillar had acquired decades of experience in the road construction industry offering a complete range of road construction machines supported by an outstanding network and exceptional financial incentives.
He mentioned that Caterpillar was the only manufacturer to offer the complete package of road building solutions; from earthmoving and soil stabilisation, to paving and finishing, through road rehabilitation equipment needs, and ensuring that road contractors will not look further for their needs of road construction equipment.
Mr Saad said each machine supplied is a class leader, enhanced with best-in-the-industry feature and its full line of equipment include Rotary Mixers, Track Type, Tractors & Loaders, Motor Graders, Soil Compactors, Cold Planers, Asphalt Pavers, Asphalt Compactors, ensuring that its customers achieve consistently high levels of productivity and reliability, and an outstanding return on their investment.
He said the antecedent to the success story of Tractor and Equipment when it took its new name Mantrac.
He said the new name carried with it a renewed pledge of excellence, professionalism and a corporate mindset of a responsible partnership in service delivery in Ghana.
The National Sales Manager said the Mantrac Group was recently awarded the exclusive right to distribute and service O&K’s range of heavy mining hydraulic excavators. The deal is part of a global agreement that will allow caterpillar dealerships in over 40 countries to sell and service the equipment.
“The New Development will bring the world’s most successful manufacturing of heavy mining diesel and electric hydraulic excavators together with the world’s biggest manufacturer of construction and mining products, both of which can now be sold and service by the Mantrac Group”, he stated.
NDC LA DADEKOTOPON RE-ELECTS NII AMASAH NAMOALE (Political Page)
21/04/08
Story: Mary Mensah
THE La Dadekotopon Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has re-elected Nii Amasah Namoale, the incumbent Member of Parliament for the area, as its parliamentary candidate for the December general elections.
Nii Namoale was elected through popular acclamation at a constituency delegates conference held at La in the Greater Accra Region.
Party Supporters jubilated amidst drumming and dancing after Mr Frederick Osekre, Chief Assistant Electoral Supervisor of the Electoral Commission, introduced him. He was the sole candidate who filed his papers for the primary.
In an acceptance speech, Nii Namoale thanked the delegates for the confidence reposed in him by endorsing him again as the parliamentary candidate.
He lauded the constituency for being loyal and dedicated to him during the past three -and a half-years.
Recounting some of his achievements, Nii Namoale told the delegates that a lot of progress had been made to uplift the area through his ingenuity, and pledged to continue with the good work when re-elected.
He indicated that victory in the upcoming elections would open a new phase of golden agenda where all major lands of the area which had been taken away by the government would be duly paid for.
Nii Namoale urged NDC faithful to rededicate and recommit themselves to winning more supporters for the party.
Mr Joseph Nii Laryea Affotey-Agbo, MP for Kpone Katamanso, called for team work and unity among members of the party to help in an effective campaign that would culminate in victory in December.
Story: Mary Mensah
THE La Dadekotopon Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has re-elected Nii Amasah Namoale, the incumbent Member of Parliament for the area, as its parliamentary candidate for the December general elections.
Nii Namoale was elected through popular acclamation at a constituency delegates conference held at La in the Greater Accra Region.
Party Supporters jubilated amidst drumming and dancing after Mr Frederick Osekre, Chief Assistant Electoral Supervisor of the Electoral Commission, introduced him. He was the sole candidate who filed his papers for the primary.
In an acceptance speech, Nii Namoale thanked the delegates for the confidence reposed in him by endorsing him again as the parliamentary candidate.
He lauded the constituency for being loyal and dedicated to him during the past three -and a half-years.
Recounting some of his achievements, Nii Namoale told the delegates that a lot of progress had been made to uplift the area through his ingenuity, and pledged to continue with the good work when re-elected.
He indicated that victory in the upcoming elections would open a new phase of golden agenda where all major lands of the area which had been taken away by the government would be duly paid for.
Nii Namoale urged NDC faithful to rededicate and recommit themselves to winning more supporters for the party.
Mr Joseph Nii Laryea Affotey-Agbo, MP for Kpone Katamanso, called for team work and unity among members of the party to help in an effective campaign that would culminate in victory in December.
BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION PRESENTS COMPUTERS TO POLICE (Page 28)
21/04/08
Story: Mary Mensah
The Deputy British High Commissioner, Ms Menna Rawlings, has presented 10 specialised Dell computers to the Ghana Police Service after closing a five-day training programme on “intelligence analysis of information on small arms and light weapons” in Accra.
The computers will be installed at five separate centres in the country to assist in the quick sharing of information to and from the CID headquarters and the police research department to the regions.
Ms Rawlings said the training formed part of a number of capacity building programmes for the Police Service by the British High Commission.
She said the training programme was directed at tackling the movement of small arms and light weapons into and around Ghana through a sound intelligence approach. She said the commission viewed its collaboration with the police as a really important aspect of the bilateral relationship between the two countries, adding that “we want to work with the IGP in his efforts to build a more effective and efficient police service that will benefit all Ghanaians”.
She urged the participants to use whatever knowledge they had acquired for the benefit of the whole country.
The Deputy Commissioner also thanked the resource persons from Cranfield University and Xpert Software, both from the UK, for their hard work and dedication.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, who received the computers, thanked the British High Commission for their continued assistance to the Ghana Police Service.
He said the training would go a long way to equip the participants with the necessary skills to conduct intelligence-led operations.
CAPTION
PIX ONE : The Deputy British High Commissioner, Ms Menna Rawlings, presenting the computers to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong.
PIX TWO: ???A group photograph of the participants with the resource persons from the UK , the IGP, Ms Rossie Tapper of Political Affairs and the Deputy High Commissioner, Mr Menna Rawlings???.
NOTE: Indicate positions in pix
Story: Mary Mensah
The Deputy British High Commissioner, Ms Menna Rawlings, has presented 10 specialised Dell computers to the Ghana Police Service after closing a five-day training programme on “intelligence analysis of information on small arms and light weapons” in Accra.
The computers will be installed at five separate centres in the country to assist in the quick sharing of information to and from the CID headquarters and the police research department to the regions.
Ms Rawlings said the training formed part of a number of capacity building programmes for the Police Service by the British High Commission.
She said the training programme was directed at tackling the movement of small arms and light weapons into and around Ghana through a sound intelligence approach. She said the commission viewed its collaboration with the police as a really important aspect of the bilateral relationship between the two countries, adding that “we want to work with the IGP in his efforts to build a more effective and efficient police service that will benefit all Ghanaians”.
She urged the participants to use whatever knowledge they had acquired for the benefit of the whole country.
The Deputy Commissioner also thanked the resource persons from Cranfield University and Xpert Software, both from the UK, for their hard work and dedication.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong, who received the computers, thanked the British High Commission for their continued assistance to the Ghana Police Service.
He said the training would go a long way to equip the participants with the necessary skills to conduct intelligence-led operations.
CAPTION
PIX ONE : The Deputy British High Commissioner, Ms Menna Rawlings, presenting the computers to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong.
PIX TWO: ???A group photograph of the participants with the resource persons from the UK , the IGP, Ms Rossie Tapper of Political Affairs and the Deputy High Commissioner, Mr Menna Rawlings???.
NOTE: Indicate positions in pix
SEMINAR FOR QUARRY OPERATORS OPENED (Page 28)
18/04/08
Story: Mary Mensah
A ONE-DAY seminar to improve the operations and management of quarries in the construction sector has been organised for quarry operators and other stakeholders in the country.
The seminar, organised by SMICE International, a Ghanaian company, in collaboration with ASTEC Aggregate and Mining Group of the USA, was on the theme: “Employing Best Practices in Quarry Operations for Accelerated Infrastructure Development”.
In an address read on his behalf, the Minister of Transportation, Dr Richard Anane, said the efficient and effective operation of quarries would definitely go a long way to improve quarry operations and reduce the current high cost of bituminous surface dressing of roads.
He said adequate and reliable supply of aggregates was very crucial for the sustenance and effective implementation of government’s programme of road development and maintenance throughout the country.
Dr Anane indicated that the government attached great importance to the development and maintenance of transport infrastructure, in particular road transport, which carries between 95 and 97 per cent of both passenger and freight traffic.
He said one of the main challenges posed to the government’s road construction programme was the issue of lack of readily available chipping’s across the country for chip seal works.
He said the lack of quarries in the northern parts of the country had adversely affected the delivery of bituminous surfacing of roads.
The minister noted that even though there were a number of quarries sited in various parts of the country, they were bedevilled with numerous problems, such as obsolete equipment, and poor operational and financial management practices.
He gave the assurance that the government would continue to provide the enabling environment for companies like SMICE International and ASTEC Group to contribute their quota to the road development programme.
The Managing Director of SMICE International, Mr Shehu Wumbei, said maintenance was very crucial to the company and it also believed in giving value to the machines they sold.
The seminar, he said, was to inculcate maintenance culture in their customers and ensure that their machines were always in good shape.
The President of ASTEC Mining Group, Mr Rick Patek, said customers played a very important role in the success of every business.
Story: Mary Mensah
A ONE-DAY seminar to improve the operations and management of quarries in the construction sector has been organised for quarry operators and other stakeholders in the country.
The seminar, organised by SMICE International, a Ghanaian company, in collaboration with ASTEC Aggregate and Mining Group of the USA, was on the theme: “Employing Best Practices in Quarry Operations for Accelerated Infrastructure Development”.
In an address read on his behalf, the Minister of Transportation, Dr Richard Anane, said the efficient and effective operation of quarries would definitely go a long way to improve quarry operations and reduce the current high cost of bituminous surface dressing of roads.
He said adequate and reliable supply of aggregates was very crucial for the sustenance and effective implementation of government’s programme of road development and maintenance throughout the country.
Dr Anane indicated that the government attached great importance to the development and maintenance of transport infrastructure, in particular road transport, which carries between 95 and 97 per cent of both passenger and freight traffic.
He said one of the main challenges posed to the government’s road construction programme was the issue of lack of readily available chipping’s across the country for chip seal works.
He said the lack of quarries in the northern parts of the country had adversely affected the delivery of bituminous surfacing of roads.
The minister noted that even though there were a number of quarries sited in various parts of the country, they were bedevilled with numerous problems, such as obsolete equipment, and poor operational and financial management practices.
He gave the assurance that the government would continue to provide the enabling environment for companies like SMICE International and ASTEC Group to contribute their quota to the road development programme.
The Managing Director of SMICE International, Mr Shehu Wumbei, said maintenance was very crucial to the company and it also believed in giving value to the machines they sold.
The seminar, he said, was to inculcate maintenance culture in their customers and ensure that their machines were always in good shape.
The President of ASTEC Mining Group, Mr Rick Patek, said customers played a very important role in the success of every business.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
LET CHIEFS CONTROL STOOL LAND REVENUE (Centre Spread)
15/04/08
Story: Mary Mensah
THE Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has called on the government to restore the collection and disbursement of stool land revenue to traditional rulers to make them financially autonomous.
He said local governance was best placed to determine local needs if it worked closely with traditional systems of governance and noted that chiefs could not be worthy partners in development if the revenue from their stool lands was taken away and controlled by the central government.
The Okyenhene was delivering a lecture on the theme, “Chieftaincy, Peace, Security and National Development”, to officer cadets at the Ghana Police College in Accra yesterday.
He said there were over 48,000 settlements in Ghana and that the central government was active in only 12,000 of them.
That, he said, implied that 75 per cent of the people were being governed on a day-to-day basis by chiefs, adding that “if this country has survived the test of time for peace and stability, the gong-gong has played a major role in maintaining peace and security in the country”.
He said there was no doubt that the chieftaincy institution played several roles in the lives of the people and that the history of all the groups that constituted Ghana was full of the heroic deeds of many men and women in the distant past who made sure that their people had peace and security.
He further said the chieftaincy institution handed over an organised system of law and order which ensured peace and security and that in the past chiefs were able to enforce laws better than central governments did in the post-independence era.
Osagyefo Ofori Panin said in the past a law banning people from polluting the source of a community’s drinking water was obeyed to the letter and nobody could enter a sacred grove to harvest timber.
He said deriving their mandate from purely customary roots, traditional rulers wielded a lot of authority and the institution had proved to be the most enduring of all national institutions since pre-independence times.
The Okyenhene said, however, that as a human and dynamic institution, it was imperative that chieftaincy was changed and adapted in order to make the institution more relevant to the demands of our time, adding, “We should not be afraid to change that which has outlived its usefulness and relevance.”
He said there was a clarion call for chiefs to shed the image of being the mere custodians of culture and tradition and offer practical leadership that could help transform the lives of their people.
“My answer to that call is that we have magnificent dreams but we cannot put them into action because the central government holds and controls all revenue,” he said.
Osagyefo Ofori Panin urged the government to re-examine Article 276 of the 1992 Constitution which prohibited chiefs from participating in active political activity, especially in view of calls for the establishment of an upper chamber of the national legislature.
He said the country’s political and economic stability, as well as the peaceful atmosphere prevailing, was not a product of only the good performance of the central and local government structures but also the successful and continuing efforts of governments and traditional authorities.
The Commandant of the college, Osabarima Oware Asare Pinkro III, said the essence of the theme was to inform the public, especially the cadet officers, that chiefs were essential elements for public security stabilisation and tools for peace and security.
He said the services of the traditional rulers could not be dispensed with when their areas of jurisdiction boiled up with acts of lawlessness that could potentially retard development.
Story: Mary Mensah
THE Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has called on the government to restore the collection and disbursement of stool land revenue to traditional rulers to make them financially autonomous.
He said local governance was best placed to determine local needs if it worked closely with traditional systems of governance and noted that chiefs could not be worthy partners in development if the revenue from their stool lands was taken away and controlled by the central government.
The Okyenhene was delivering a lecture on the theme, “Chieftaincy, Peace, Security and National Development”, to officer cadets at the Ghana Police College in Accra yesterday.
He said there were over 48,000 settlements in Ghana and that the central government was active in only 12,000 of them.
That, he said, implied that 75 per cent of the people were being governed on a day-to-day basis by chiefs, adding that “if this country has survived the test of time for peace and stability, the gong-gong has played a major role in maintaining peace and security in the country”.
He said there was no doubt that the chieftaincy institution played several roles in the lives of the people and that the history of all the groups that constituted Ghana was full of the heroic deeds of many men and women in the distant past who made sure that their people had peace and security.
He further said the chieftaincy institution handed over an organised system of law and order which ensured peace and security and that in the past chiefs were able to enforce laws better than central governments did in the post-independence era.
Osagyefo Ofori Panin said in the past a law banning people from polluting the source of a community’s drinking water was obeyed to the letter and nobody could enter a sacred grove to harvest timber.
He said deriving their mandate from purely customary roots, traditional rulers wielded a lot of authority and the institution had proved to be the most enduring of all national institutions since pre-independence times.
The Okyenhene said, however, that as a human and dynamic institution, it was imperative that chieftaincy was changed and adapted in order to make the institution more relevant to the demands of our time, adding, “We should not be afraid to change that which has outlived its usefulness and relevance.”
He said there was a clarion call for chiefs to shed the image of being the mere custodians of culture and tradition and offer practical leadership that could help transform the lives of their people.
“My answer to that call is that we have magnificent dreams but we cannot put them into action because the central government holds and controls all revenue,” he said.
Osagyefo Ofori Panin urged the government to re-examine Article 276 of the 1992 Constitution which prohibited chiefs from participating in active political activity, especially in view of calls for the establishment of an upper chamber of the national legislature.
He said the country’s political and economic stability, as well as the peaceful atmosphere prevailing, was not a product of only the good performance of the central and local government structures but also the successful and continuing efforts of governments and traditional authorities.
The Commandant of the college, Osabarima Oware Asare Pinkro III, said the essence of the theme was to inform the public, especially the cadet officers, that chiefs were essential elements for public security stabilisation and tools for peace and security.
He said the services of the traditional rulers could not be dispensed with when their areas of jurisdiction boiled up with acts of lawlessness that could potentially retard development.
BRITISH COUNCIL HOLDS BUSINESS FORUM (Business Page)
15/04/2008
Story: Mary Mensah
The British Council Management Express Forum (MEX) presents former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AVIVA, the fifth largest financial Service firm in the world.
Mr Richard Harvey, one of the longest serving CEO’s is also a member of European Financial Roundtable and is expected to deliver an address to facilitate the April forum on the Growth and Leadership in Today’s Business: what it takes Transform Effectiveness.
The MEX forum is a flagship product of the Management Express which is a group of Managers and other professionals who come together through high profile networking events to discuss current topical issues in management.
With the facilitation of a renowned high profile speaker members share experience and expertise and ultimately aim to improve management capacities and leadership skills in Ghana.
Since May, 2006 renowned international and motivational speakers who have facilitated the forum.
Aviva is the world’s fifth largest insurance business, and the biggest in the UK. It works in 27 Countries and deals in fund management, long term savings and general insurance.
Aviva’s has world-wide total sales of £41.5 billion and assets under management of £377 billion and Richard was responsible for the strategic development of the group through both organic and inorganic growth.
Mr Harvey’s notable achievements include the successful merger of Norwich Union and CGU in May 2000 to create Aviva and under Richard’s direction, Aviva took important steps forward; for instance, acquiring RAC in 2005 which enabled the group’s UK business to take a substantial step towards securing high value business and gaining increased access to customers.
He also oversaw the acquisition of AmerUs, a leader in the high-growth US equity-indexed market, which has since expanded Aviva’s US presence four-fold; Richard started the business’s work in China and India with trading in both countries and outsourcing in the latter.
Upon his retirement Richard and his wife Kay decided to take a Gap Year and after meeting with a number of international development organisations, they decided to work with Concern Universal.
He said, "we looked at volunteering our services to a number of charities, but it was the nature and scale of Concern Universal that appealed to us; the chemistry with the people was good, its cost effective reputation in developing countries excellent; it was large enough for us to make a genuine contribution, but at the same time had the feel and personal approach of a smaller organisation that we were looking for.
Their down-to-earth approach has given us the insight and practical experience needed to make a meaningful contribution to the charity sector in the longer term.
As part of their induction, Richard and Kay spent the first month visiting a range of projects in Kenya, Malawi and Mozambique. Up to December 2007, they worked with Concern Universal in Kenya where they were involved in a range of activities; for instance, reviewing the school feeding programme in a specific District and working with local stakeholders to explore the way forward; considering the potential to harness carbon finance for sustainable development purposes and so on. Since January, Richard and Kay have been based in Malawi.
Richard Harvey’s visit to Ghana this month is to experience Concern Universal’s work here and take part in high profile management-related events organized by British Council.
Story: Mary Mensah
The British Council Management Express Forum (MEX) presents former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AVIVA, the fifth largest financial Service firm in the world.
Mr Richard Harvey, one of the longest serving CEO’s is also a member of European Financial Roundtable and is expected to deliver an address to facilitate the April forum on the Growth and Leadership in Today’s Business: what it takes Transform Effectiveness.
The MEX forum is a flagship product of the Management Express which is a group of Managers and other professionals who come together through high profile networking events to discuss current topical issues in management.
With the facilitation of a renowned high profile speaker members share experience and expertise and ultimately aim to improve management capacities and leadership skills in Ghana.
Since May, 2006 renowned international and motivational speakers who have facilitated the forum.
Aviva is the world’s fifth largest insurance business, and the biggest in the UK. It works in 27 Countries and deals in fund management, long term savings and general insurance.
Aviva’s has world-wide total sales of £41.5 billion and assets under management of £377 billion and Richard was responsible for the strategic development of the group through both organic and inorganic growth.
Mr Harvey’s notable achievements include the successful merger of Norwich Union and CGU in May 2000 to create Aviva and under Richard’s direction, Aviva took important steps forward; for instance, acquiring RAC in 2005 which enabled the group’s UK business to take a substantial step towards securing high value business and gaining increased access to customers.
He also oversaw the acquisition of AmerUs, a leader in the high-growth US equity-indexed market, which has since expanded Aviva’s US presence four-fold; Richard started the business’s work in China and India with trading in both countries and outsourcing in the latter.
Upon his retirement Richard and his wife Kay decided to take a Gap Year and after meeting with a number of international development organisations, they decided to work with Concern Universal.
He said, "we looked at volunteering our services to a number of charities, but it was the nature and scale of Concern Universal that appealed to us; the chemistry with the people was good, its cost effective reputation in developing countries excellent; it was large enough for us to make a genuine contribution, but at the same time had the feel and personal approach of a smaller organisation that we were looking for.
Their down-to-earth approach has given us the insight and practical experience needed to make a meaningful contribution to the charity sector in the longer term.
As part of their induction, Richard and Kay spent the first month visiting a range of projects in Kenya, Malawi and Mozambique. Up to December 2007, they worked with Concern Universal in Kenya where they were involved in a range of activities; for instance, reviewing the school feeding programme in a specific District and working with local stakeholders to explore the way forward; considering the potential to harness carbon finance for sustainable development purposes and so on. Since January, Richard and Kay have been based in Malawi.
Richard Harvey’s visit to Ghana this month is to experience Concern Universal’s work here and take part in high profile management-related events organized by British Council.
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