The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Trade Fair Limited, Dr. Agnes Adu, has described the challenging state of the company when she took office in 2017.
Dr. Adu explained that the Trade Fair was in significant disrepair, requiring a major overhaul to bring it back to operational standards. In an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Channel One TV’s Face to Face, she disclosed that when she assumed her role, the company owed staff 18 months of salary arrears, highlighting the financial and operational issues that needed immediate attention.
“Over the years, the facility had broken down to an unrecognisable place, we really couldn’t function here. The dilapidated structures that were here were actually even dangerous to the public.
“To even bring that rally here, before 202o, pack people to a place where the buildings are unstable, the ground is infested with all manner of things. This current government when I took over the site, it was such a broken down place, the company itself. The employees hadn’t been paid in 18 months under the previous government [Mahama tenure].
“They hadn’t been paid in 18 months the day I walked in. There was not one building I could walk in and say this is a place we could do an event. It needed a rehab, it needed urgent rehabilitation.
“The government, the board of directors, and I quickly came up with a plan to make sure that we turned this place around, remodelled it, and turned it into a modern space where we could have meaningful events. It was critical. Almost 100% of the site had broken down.”
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