The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, has tasked a newly constituted board of the Ghana School of Survey and Mapping (GSSM) to prioritise capacity-building initiatives to produce high quality survey and mapping professionals for the country.
The board is made up of seven-members and chaired by the Technical Director for Lands at the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr James Ebenezer K. Dadson.
Board
Members of the board include, the Deputy Executive Secretary in-charge of Corporate Services at the Lands Commission, Mr James Ofori-Boadu; an official from the Survey and Mapping Division of the Lands Commission, Mr Yaw Aboagye-Kyei; and the Principal of the GSSM, Mr Daniel Adomako Agyemfrah.
The rest are Mr J.C. Acquah of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors, and a representative from the GSSM Student Representative Council (SRC), Mr Richard Kwaku Baah.
At the swearing-in of the GSSM board, the Minister charged members to be pragmatic to resolve infrastructure and other challenges confronting the institution.
He said, the ministry is aware of the infrastructural challenges GSSM currently faces, and that will lend its unflinching support to every effort aimed at resolving such setbacks.
Mr Asomah-Cheremeh said the GSSM was one of the critical institutions that needed to be supported to produce the technical human resource needed for national development.
He urged members of the board to bring their knowledge and expertise acquired in various fields over the years to bare on the institution to turn around the fortunes of GSSM.
Speaking on behalf of the board, a Lecturer at the Geometric Engineering Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Anthony Arko-Adjei said, the board recognises challenges confronting the school and assured it tireless efforts to the task assigned.
He added, the board will offer good counsel to the school and look forward to work with the ministry to elevate the school as one the best schools in Ghana.
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