The Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery, Isaac Osei, has resigned.
Chairman
of the General Transport, Petroleum, and Chemical Workers Union
(GTPCWU) at TOR, John Elton Botchway confirmed this to JoyNews Friday.
According to him, Mr Osei made the surprise announcement at a staff end-of-year gathering.
“He asked us to be resilient and not to be downhearted by his exit. According to him politicians will come and go,” Mr Botchway told JoyNews editor, Fred Smith in a telephone interview.
Mr Osei, who is also a former Member
of Parliament (MP) for Subin Constituency took over from Mr Kwame Awuah
Darko as the Managing Director (MD) of TOR in 2017 and he has been
credited with improving the fortunes of the organisation.
These
achievements include embarking on a needed shut down maintenance to
improve upon the performance and reliability of the refinery after it
had missed three cycles of scheduled shut down maintenance prior to his
appointment.
That is not all.
The former Ghana Cocoa Board MD is also credited with the payment for a 120tph Steam Boiler which increases steam generation capacity for plant operations and ensures the reliability of the Refinery’s utility system.
Find a brief profile of Mr Osei as gleaned from the corporation’s website.
After
completing Achimota School in 1970, he went further to obtain higher
education at the University of Ghana, Legon where he graduated with
B.Sc. (Hons) Degree in Economics. He further studied Mathematics and
Statistics at the Economics Institute at the University of Colorado in
Boulder, USA. Mr Osei, in addition, holds a master’s degree in
Development Economics, now Centre for Policy Analysis at the prestigious
Williams College in Massachusetts, USA.
He
began his career at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in
Ghana where he worked at the Industry, Mining and Forestry Division
prior to moving into the Macro- Economic Section of the Ministry.
Mr
Osei was appointed Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Ireland (2001-
2006). Whiles in London, he was elected to the position of Chairperson
at the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth Secretariat, UK.
As
Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) in 2006, Mr Osei
led the Board to make investments in yield-enhancing schemes, cocoa
disease and pests control as well as trade logistics infrastructure
which saw Cocobod attaining an astounding production target of one
million tonnes of cocoa within three years. He served as Vice-Chair of
the Executive Committee of the International Cocoa Organization and was a
member of the Consultative Board on the World Cocoa Economy.
He
served as Chairman of Cocoa Marketing Company (UK) Ltd and was a member
of the Board of Aluworks Ghana Ltd, Cocoa Processing Company Ltd and
WAMCO.
He
founded Ghanexim Economic Consultants Ltd and consulted for the World
Bank, USAID and the Ghana Government on several projects in Ghana. Mr
Osei was also the Managing Director for E.K Osei & Engineers &
Contractors Company, as well as Intravenous Infusions Ltd, the largest
manufacturer of intravenous infusions and small volume injectable in
West Africa.
Currently, Mr Osei serves as the Chairman of Algebra Securities Ltd, Algebra Capital Ltd, and Intravenous Infusions Ltd.
Mr.
Osei represented the Subin Constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana
as its Member of Parliament from 2009-2017. He was the ranking member of
the Trade, Industry and Tourism Committee from 2009-2013, ranking
member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs between 2013-2017.
He
served as a member of the Parliament’s House and the Poverty Reduction
Committee and Ad-hoc Committees which prepared the Code of Conduct for
Members of Parliament, just to mention but a few.
