A former CNN staff and Ghanaian Diplomat, Edward Boateng, who has been penciled for the position of Managing Director of Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), Ghana’s premier refinery, is optimistic of dealing with the financial challenges of the refinery and making it a viable asset.
According to the former Ghana’s Ambassador to China, he has what it takes to deal with the challenges confronting TOR.
TOR is Ghana’s premier refinery established in 1963 by the first Ghanaian leader, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
The 45,000 barrel per stream day (bpsd) capacity refinery has been struggling because of poor leadership under successive governments.
Staff of refinery have had beefs with almost every Managing Director of the refinery under the 4th Republic because of poor leadership.
During the first term of President Akufo-Addo, the refinery had three Managing Directors.
Mr. Edward Boateng is going to be the fourth person to manage the refinery under the second term of President Akufo-Addo.
Speaking in an interview on a privately owned- Kumasi-based Wuntumi TV, the former CNN senior journalist and communication strategist explained that one of the virtues taught him and his siblings by their parents was the gift of problem solving.
Mr. Boateng was of the view that, though he has not had the opportunity to work at TOR, he strongly believes that the problems facing the refinery is purely financial and hopes to acquaint himself with the workers and craft a lasting solution to the problem and make it profitable again.
“For me, one of the things I always thank my parents for is that they taught us how to solve problems. We have to solve the problem at TOR and I will solve it,” he stressed.
He also cited an instance when he decided to resign from Coca Cola to join the CNN and help build the company.
According him, a friend of his impugned that he was destined to fail for that decision, but he proved him wrong at the end of the day.
“Again, when Breakfast Show was being introduced at GBC, many workers opposed it but we devised a strategy and ran a shift system to make it workable and has now become an envy for many TV and radio stations today.
“The same way was how we used strong negotiating skills to convince many African nations to accept CNN programmes. I will use the same approach to solve the problems confronting TOR and would change the fortunes of this critical national assert,” he noted.
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