President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Ghanaian musician, Bice Osei Kuffuor popularly known as Obour as the Managing Director of Ghana Post Company Limited.
The former president of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) is expected to give new life and imporove the standard of operation of the company and see to the expansion of the company’s postal network and improve service delivery.
Obour who became a politician lost his bid to become the NPP Parliamentary candidate for the Asante Akim South constituency ahead of the 2020 elections.
He lost the election to the incumbent MP, Kwaku Asante Boateng.
During the Parliamentary Primaries held by the NPP on June 10, the MP came through with 360 votes and Obour followed with 296.
The other candidates, namely, Edmond Oppong Peprah, William Yamoah and Eric Amoah had 9, 32 and 8 votes respectively.
Ghana Post last few years has been on a turnaround path, leading to significant growth through innovation and the introduction of new services, and the expansion of its fleet.
Digitization of post offices across the country has been at the centre of the turnaround strategy, allowing the company flexibility to easily add on new services, whiles the introduction of digital addresses by the government has come to enhance delivery of mails and parcels.
Their online platform, ‘Ghpostpay’, was launched in 2019 to allow customers to access Ghana Post services remotely.
Ghana Post’s significant growth and contributions over the past three years has been recognized by both international and local partners in the form of awards.
In July 1999, Ghana Postal Services Corporation was converted to a limited liability company.
The conversion, therefore, placed the company together with similar private enterprises in the same legal and regulatory operating environment.
It, therefore, enabled the company to operate successfully in a competitive commercial environment and widened the objectives of the company as it existed under Act 505.
As the nation’s designated operator, with a network of 360 post offices across the country, Ghana Post provides courier, financial services (remittances, post assurance and agency services) and traditional mail services.
By Vincent Kubi