By P.K.Yankey
Aiyinasi (W/R), May 21, GNA – The Friends of the Nation ( FoN), an environmental NGO, together with the Ellembelle District Assembly, have engaged the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) Limited on their operations and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
The engagement was aimed at bridging the communication gap between the Company and the communities to streamline the CRS roles of Ghana Gas to foster industrial peace and harmony.
Mr William Augustine -Denkyi,a Project Officer with FoN, made this known during a stakeholder engagement meeting at Aiyinasi in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region.
It was attended by officials from the Ghana Gas, the Ellembelle District Assembly, National Disaster Managment Organisation (NADMO), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), community members and the media.
The engagement afforded the Ghana Gas and stakeholders, especially host communities to discuss their operations and how issues affecting the communities could be addressed.
It was also a platform to foster partnership and good human relations between Ghana Gas and community members.
Mr Augustine-Denkyi appealed to Ghana Gas officials to organize town hall meetings and sensitizations to bring activities of the Company to the doorsteps of the communities.
Mr John Quarshie, Officer in Charge of CSR at Ghana Gas, outlined of projects, services and activities embarked upon by Ghana Gas in the area.
He said Ghana Gas was more committed to managing community impact organizing community as well as designing complaints and grievance management procedure.
He said the Company had made payments in the form of compensation to people in the affected communities, embarking on sensitization exercise on their operations as well as media engagements with community members.
Mr Quarshie said in education, scholarship packages had been disbursed to uncountable number of students pursuing tertiary education among other community intervention projects.
Mr Theophilus Tamatey-Agbo, Planning Officer of the District said the Assembly would collaborate with Ghana Gas on their medium-term development plan to enable Ghana Gas to pitch the necessary projects in the respective communities within the enclave.
He lauded Ghana Gas for bringing development to the district with some major social interventions to better the life of the people.
GNA
Edited by MSM/Benjamin Mensah