I’ll make Ghana Publishing Company competitive in 4 years – Kwasi Boatey

Nana Kwasi Boatey, the Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Publishing Company, has set ambitious goals to transform the organisation and make it a leading publisher in the sub-region within the next four years.

In an interview on Eyewitness News on Citi FM on Friday, Boatey emphasised the need for structural changes, noting that a new organogram has been developed and the company is completely restructuring.

“I want the structures to change. In fact in this period that we’ve been there we’ve done a new organogram. We are setting up entirely the structure completely new but I want the physical structures even to change,” Boatey stated.

He outlined his vision for the company to become as competitive as any other publisher in the sub-region. This includes securing international jobs and expanding into security printing.

“I want by the time I leave for the place to be as competitive as any other publisher in the sub-region. I want to be able to get international jobs. We are looking at security printing. I want for us to be able to print passports from Ghana Publishing. I want for us to be able to print cheques from Ghana publishing,” he explained.

Boatey also expressed his desire for the Ghana Publishing Company to handle all printing needs for the Ghana Education Service (GES) and other government institutions, rather than outsourcing to private publishers.

“I want GES to bring all their work to us and not to a private publisher. I want all government institutions to feel confident in bringing their jobs to us and I want for everybody who thinks about printing and publishing to think about us before anybody,” he added.