The Deputy Managing Director of Metro Mass Transit Company in charge of Operations and Technical, Nana Osei Bamfo has urged the staff of the company to change their attitude toward work in order to restore the confidence of the Government and customers.
He’s also charged the Branch Managers to ensure efficient utilization, proper maintenance and regular cleaning of the company’s fleet of buses under their supervision to ensure longer life span of the vehicles.
Nana Osei Bamfo was speaking during an operational tour to Takoradi, Cape Coast and Agona Swedru branches of the company to interact with the staff to appreciate the challenges in their respective branches, share with them the vision for the company for the year 2023 and to motivate them to give off their best.
The Deputy Managing Director, accompanied by the Finance Manager, Emmanuel Obeng, Head of Corporate Communications, George Krobea Asante, and Assistant Operations Manager, Jahil Akoto in all the branches they visited engaged the Local Management Team together with the Senior and Junior Staff Union Executives at the respective branches, as has always been the practice, before meeting the general staff.
Nana Osei Bamfo emphasized the need to have the company’s old fleets replaced with new buses since no transport company could survive in business using old buses. He gave the assurance that the Government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Transport, the Board of Directors and Management, are doing everything humanly possible to get new set of buses to augment the company’s fleet and revamp its operations.
The DMD took the opportunity to commend the Nana Akufo- Addo’s Government for assisting the company with some 144 new intercity Daewoo air-conditioned and VDL buses since assuming office in January 2017.
He further commended the Hon. Minister of Transport, Hon. Kwaku Ofori Asiamah and the Board for their continuous support in ensuring an adequate number of new buses are provided to support the operations of the company.
The Branch Managers and some of the staff at the various branches highlighted a number of challenges facing their respective branches which are primarily due to inadequate and aged buses.
The workers were very hopeful that once the new buses are brought in to support the operations, all the challenges enumerated will become a thing of the past.
The Finance Manager of the company, Mr. Emmanuel Obeng, made a comprehensive presentation on the financial position of the company which presented a vivid picture of where the company was, where it is today and where we expect it to be in future. He admonished workers to desist from all forms of financial malfeasance, and also accept and work with the various reforms introduced by Management such as the E-ticketing system, advance ticketing system and capital projects initiated, among other initiatives, all of which are geared towards improving the operating systems to meet standard.
The Head of Corporate Communications, Mr. George Krobea Asante, also advised the workers to refrain from the attitude of sharing corporate information and putting classified information about the company into the public domain without authority, especially unauthorized engagement with the media since that negatively impact the corporate image of the company.
He charged the workers to always resort to the company’s policy on information dissemination in order to safeguard the image of the company.
The DMD (Ops & Tech) and his team visited the Takoradi, Cape Coast and Agona Swedru branches of the company.
The team also visited some selected media houses in the region to help promote the company’s services and to engage the general public on some of its plans for the region in order to inspire confidence in its cherished customers.
