Official sources point to a massive shake-up at the Forestry Commission, with the transfer of all 16 regional managers of the Forest Services Division of the Commission.
This follows the reassignment of the Executive Director of the Forest Services Division, Hugh C. Brown, as an Advisor on Forestry to the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources.
The shake-up is said to be in line with government’s policy to ensure dynamism and focus at the Forestry Commission, particularly the Forest Services Division, which supports government’s flagship afforestation and reforestation programmes. The decision is also to ensure efficient management and use of our forest resources.
According to government officials, the movement of the regional managers is additionally aimed at bringing dynamism to the work of the Commission, and to ensure that the Commission delivers on its mandate to protect and manage the forest resources of our country.
The Forest Services Division is one of the Divisions of the Forestry Commission, responsible for the development, protection and management of the country’s forest resources. It is also responsible for the development of forest plantation and the regulation of the harvesting of forest resources.
The constant depletion of the nation’s forest resources has been of a major concern, compelling government, last year, to launch the Green Ghana Project as part of an aggressive afforestation and reforestation programme targeted at restoring the country’s lost forest cover.
According to the Forestry Commission, at the maiden edition, over seven million trees were planted on the Green Ghana Day. Subsequently, over twenty-two million trees were planted at this year’s Green Ghana Day.
Mr. Brown brings into the Commission enormous experience in forest plantation, having served as the Director of Operations for Plantation at the Forestry Commission before being appointed as the Executive Director of the Forest Services Division.
A certified forester with over 28 years’ working experience, Mr. Brown also has expertise in the management forestry projects.
Transfers
The movement of the regional managers has also resulted in Joseph Bempah moving from Western North to Greater Accra; Stephen Asamoah Duah from Upper West to Western North; Bosompem Poku from Eastern to Ahafo and Augustine Gyedu from Ashanti to Bono.
Mr. Clement A. Omari moves from Western to Ashanti, while Michael Paintsil moves from Central to Western; and Lucy Amoh Ntim moves from Bono East to Savannah, as Dickson Adjei Sekyi moves from Oti to Bono East.
The rest are Isaac Noble Eshun, who moves from Bono to Eastern; Bernard Tabil from Northern to Oti; Bright Manso-Howard from Volta to North East; Ahmed Nsiah Bempah from North East to Northern; Emmanuel Yeboah from Upper East to Volta; Sintim Yabbey from Savannah to Upper East and Bennet Ntiamoah from Ahafo to Central Region.
Finally, Godfred Quashigah, the Assistant Regional Manager for Ashanti Region, moves to Upper West Region as the Regional Manager.
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