A former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), Ing Jonathan Amoako-Baah, says he was not the type of CEO who sat in the office and always enjoyed the breeze from the air conditioner.
Speaking to energynewsafrica.com in an over an hour’s exclusive, Ing. Jonathan Amoako-Baah said when he received his appointment in 2017 and started working, there were problems and, therefore, put a team together to tackle the issues.
“When I was at GRIDCo, whenever there was a problem and journalist called me to find out what was happening, I would tell them there were problems but, then, we were on top of the issues and that we’re going to solve the problems because we had not come to give excuses. We came to work to solve problems. And the people who put us there knew that we were capable of solving those problems that was why they put us there,” he stated.
Amoako-Baah, who praised the resilience and zeal of his team, said: “My team members were willing to do everything for us to have solutions to the problems and I raise my heart for them.”
He recalled how he and his team visited the Atiwa forest a couple of times to inspire the engineers who were working to fix a problem with the transmission line.
“I was not the CEO who sat in the office every day. I was visiting the transmission lines that were built from Kumasi. I visited the whole transmission line route. I went to Nayania substation which was built in Bolgatanga, Adubiyile in Tamale and Awomaso,” he said.
GRIDCo has a total transmission network of about 6,414kilometres
Source: energynewsafrica.com
