Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Inagurates LUSPA and GAEC Boards
Dr Kwaku Afriyie, Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, has inaugurated a 17-Member Governing Board of the Land Use and Spatial Planning Authority (LUSPA).
The Board is under the Chairmanship of Professor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa, a former Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
Other members include Mr Seth Osei Akoto, National Technical Director, Ministry of Food and Agriculture; Dr Kodjo Esseim Mensah-Abrampa, Director-General, National Development Planning Commission; Mr Ebenezer Sam, Ministry of Works and Housing; Naa Puowele Karbo III of the National House of Chiefs and Dr Joseph Kwaku Amaglo, Ghana Institute of Surveyors (GhIS).
The rest are Mr Kwadwo Yeboah, LUSPA; Madam Suweibutu Adam, Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources; Mr Kwabena Agyepong, Ghana Institute of Engineers (GIE); Maame Ama Edumadze-Acquah, Office of Administrator of Stool Lands; Mr Michael Kofi Mensah, Ghana Institute of Planners and Mr Jones Ofori Boadu, Lands Commission.
Others are Dr Christine O. Asare, Environmental Protection Agency; Mr Philip Lartey, Ministry of Roads and Highways; Mrs Lydia Essuah, Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MESTI); Mr Samuel Seth Passah; Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development; and Nana Akua A. A. Oppong-Birmeh, Ghana Institute of Architects
Dr Afriyie tasked the LUSPA Board to ensure the visibility of the Authority to Ghanaians; adding that, the LUSPA Board was one of the strongest boards one would imagine in the country in terms of the array of professionals of the highest level.
The second Board, A seven-member Board of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) chaired by Dr Kwesi Aning, a former Deputy Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was also inaugurated in Accra.
The GAEC Board, which will provide direction to Management, was inaugurated by Dr Kweku Afriyie, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation.
Other members of the Board include Professor Benjamin Jabez Botwe Nyarko, Director-General, GAEC, Mrs Cynthia Asare Bediako, Chief Director, Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation.
The rest are Dr Elsie A. B. Effah Kaufmann of the University of Ghana, Mr Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, and Dr Robert Adjaye, Director of Research Survey and Administration at AIESEC.
Dr Afriyie said the Commission had a long history, which was almost as old as Ghana’s independence; saying with regards to agencies that had dealt with nuclear energy and all its ramifications, GAEC was one of the first in Sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa.
He noted that Ghana had got a very rich nuclear history and culture, stating that the country needs nuclear energy more than any other time its history.
Source: kessbenonline.com
