Graduands in a photograph with dignitaries at the ceremony
The Director General of Prisons, Mr. Patrick Darko Missah, has emphasized the importance of the position of Technical Supervisory Managers (TSMs) in national development.
As a middle level management position, the TSMs must be endowed with all the skills required in the industry, including areas of operations.
He said: “Our goal as a country desirous of making up for the massive infrastructural deficit and to develop our industries cannot be attained without paying attention to the training of the Technical Supervisory Manager”, adding that the country will move from its current stage of middle income country to a higher one only if the necessary legislations regarding the training and importance of Technical Supervisory Managers were put in place.
Mr. Darko made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf by Leopold Ansah, the Director of Prisons in charge of Services and Technical, during the ‘passing out ceremony’ of the 27th Junior/Senior Supervisory Management course on the theme “The Role of Technical Supervisory Manager in National Development”.
He indicated that government projects such as the ‘One District, One Factory’ would achieve major boost if TSMs who possess the requisite skills were employed to handle jobs that are intended to jolt Ghana’s economic growth towards national development.
He said that the consequences of poor technical supervision were far reaching, stressing few of the consequences that can have serious implications on national development as flooding due to poor drainage designs, collapse of buildings due to poor construction, poorly constructed roads which lead to accidents and bad condition of vehicles plying these roads.
In all, 10 officers with six from the Ghana Prisons Service, two from Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, one from Volta River Authority and one from the Water Research Institute participated in the 2018 Junior/Senior Supervisory Management course.
Touching on the challenges facing the institute, Principal of the ITS, John Welbeck, indicated that the parcel of land acquired by the government for the ITS had been greatly encroached upon by private developers and would hamper future expansion of the institute.
By Abigail Owiredu-Boateng