Government’s commitment to ensuring public-private partnerships seem to be on course as the Rector of GIMPA, Professor Yaw Agyeman Badu and the Managing Director of UNIBANK, Ammishaddai Owusu Amoah cut the sod on Wednesday to officially commence a building project.
The project, which cost GH¢ 350,000, is said to have started in December last year by Sandpark Properties Limited and expected be completed on June 28, 2011.
The technical director of Sandpark Properities Limited, George Duke Blankson, was optimistic that the project will be completed on time.
Professor Yaw Agyemang Badu, in his welcome address, made reference to the fact that uniBank was the first and remains the only financial institution with a presence on the campus of GIMPA.
He stated further that their operations have proved to be beneficial to both the bank and the institute.
“The project will give the institute more room to operate,” the Rector stated, adding that the partnership is a win-win situation and seems to throw a challenge to other public and private organisations to follow suit and not to go outside for loans or ask government for financial assistance.
Mr Ammishaddai Owusu Amoah, the Chief Executive and Managing Director of uniBank, in his speech, said that there is more that public and private partnerships can do for the country in the areas of infrastructure and education and urged the government to collaborate more with the private sector operators.
“2011 is the 10th Anniversary of uniBank’s as a company and we are dedicating the building as part of the celebration,” he stated.
The MD urged the people in the community to continue to patronize the services of the bank even as the project progress.
by Francis Yanchira & Eric Oppong.
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