WORKSHOP FOR TRANSPORT OWNERS, DRIVERS NSEMPA PAGE 20)

By Collins Agyekum Gyasi, Obuasi.

THE Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) for the Upper Denkyira Civic Union and Dunkwa on Offin Kumasi Co-operative Transport Society have completed a successful two-week advocacy-training workshop for transport owners and drivers at Dunkwa On Offin.
Over 70 members, drawn from the two groups, were taken through Introduction To Advocacy, The Importance of the Private Sector and Economic Development, The Roles and Obligation of Government as well as Regulations and The Businesses Environment.
Mr John Gershon Koomson, a consultant and facilitator of the sector, noted that BUSAC sought to help people in the private sector to manage their business effectively.
He said the decision by BUSAC to sponsor the workshop was to offer participants the requisite skills needed to effectively run and manage their businesses and to amicably resolve conflicts whenever they occurred.
“If conflicts are not properly handled, they have the tendency of collapsing an organisation, society or group,“ Mr Koomson observed.
The participants were also taken through How To Form and Organise A Strong and Effective Group, Effective Leadership and Functions Of The Various Leaders In A Group.
The Upper Denkyira East Municipal Officer, Mr Philip Lutterodt, charged participants to use the knowledge acquired to judiciously run their associations and businesses to improve their living standards.
He lauded BUSAC for sponsoring what he described as a very important workshop, which would go a long way to boost the nation’s human resource base, and enhance the development of the people.
The participants, at the end of the workshop, pledged to use the knowledge acquired, to contribute their quota to the development of the country.
Certificates of participation were issued at the end of workshop.