Kofi Ahovi

 470 water safety guards from Ecozoil Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of Zoomlion Ghana Limited as part of the Volta Lake Transport Safety Project (VLTSP) has graduated to help save lives and properties in the country’s water bodies. The water safety guards who will be deployed mainly on the Volta Lake were drawn from nine regions across the country. The guards who were trained at the Eastern Naval Command of the Ghana Navy at Tema in the Greater Accra Region were trained in basic water swimming, water surviving skills, fire-fighting, and water rescue among others. The guards will be in charge of checking the overloading of boats, ensure the wearing of lifejackets, cleaning the landing sites. The government through its Private Public Partnership (PPP) is expected to provide free lifejackets for use on the Volta lake. The Flag Officer Commanding the Eastern Naval Command (ENC), Commodore Emmanuel Ayenu Kwafo, in his welcome address commended the management of Ecozoil Ghana Limited for p...

  ...As Transport Ministry Partners ECOZOIL The Ministry of Transport, in collaboration with ZOIL (ECOZOIL), a subsidiary of Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), has launched an exercise to clean all landing sites along the Volta Lake. The exercise, which kick-started along the Volta Lake in Oti Region on Monday, March 21, 2022, will also be replicated in Volta, Eastern, Northern Region, Bono East, Savannah and North East Regions. It is aimed at promoting safe travels on the Volta Lake as well as ensure the landing sites were cleared of filth. Workers of ECOZOIL were busily seen sweeping the landing sites of the Volta Lake and also picking plastics on the beaches. Military personnel provided security and support to ECOZOIL during the exercise. Sanitation equipment deployed for the exercise included wheel barrows, rakes, shovels, broomsticks, compactors and trash bins. Speaking to journalists, the National Coordinator for the Volta Lake Transport Safety Project, Yaa Oforiwaa, explained...