Chief Executive Officer for the Ghana Petroleum Commission (GPC), Mr. Egbert Faibille Junior has emphasized the need for every Ghanaian artisanal welder to join the Ghana Welding Bureau (GWB) which he remarks is in to place the ordinary Ghanaian welder on the same pedestal as the country's foreign welders who he says are not matter of than those Ghana posses but due to certification issues has upheld these expatriate welders to be where they currently find themselves sitted.
He said this at the Ghana Welding Bureau's consultative forum held at the Central Regional capital Cape Coast which saw the ancient city's Town Hall flooded with a number of welders from all parts of the Region, coupled with some technical institutions like the Asiwandze Technical Institute, Cape Coast Technical University and the Cape Coast Technical Institute among others, all situated within the Central Region.
The Ghana Welding Bureau is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) which strives on the shoulders of the Petroleum Commission under the Ministry of Energy, which seeks to provide the ordinary Ghanaian artisanal welder the platform to be internationally accepted and recognized through it's formal training procedures laid down for its members to be equiped with, having acquired it's onus from the International Institute of Welding (IIW) as an internationally certified organization.
The GWB as an organization was moreover established some three (3) months ago in Accra, which since it's inception has been embarking on a series of regional tours (having initially been to Tarkoradi in the Western Region) to hold consultative forums in other to listen and gather the challenges those in the field of mechanical engineering, welding and those in the informal sector of welding, mostly refered to as artisanal welders are usually posed with.
The Petroleum Commission boss speaking at the forum however depicted that the GWB has so far through its philanthropic works gotten some nine (9) students from some seven carefully selected technical institutions across the country which includes the Kikam Technical Institute, the Tarkoradi Technical Institute, Cape Coast Technical University, the Tarkoradi Technical University, Koforidua Technical University, the Ho Technical University and the Tamale Technical University respectively to enrolled at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton-Canada, who in the last ten (10) months have been receiving training to become master technical instructors in welding, pipe fitting among other course, and are due to graduate on 24th October, 2022 to return to their aforementioned institutions as internationally certified technical instructors.
Mr. Faibille in addition expressed his outmost worry on the country's inability in getting a single technical institution which has the requisite authenticity in training students on pipe fitting over sixty (60) years now of independence, as he finally disclosed the Cape Coast Technical University to be the first institution of it's kind who will very soon have pipe fitting taught at it's campus as a course.
On why important every welder in the country ought not to miss out in joining the Ghana Welding Bureau, Mr. Egbert Faibille Junior said;
"As the least mistake one stands to commit during his line of duty as a welder can easily result to the killing of countless individuals, propelled us take a step back to analyze things, where we found out that the constant rejections some of our welders are receiving from expatriate welders are mainly not as a result of their certifications but as a result of they not having the backing of any internationally recognized organization to authenticate their training.
Hence the inception of the Ghana Welding Bureau which seeks to address such issues, having been certified by the International Institute of Welding (IIW), providing everyone who joins the organization gain to have the automatic support of the IIW," he told Accra-UK based Rainbow Radio reporter Eric Annan.
Speaking on behave of the Central Regional Minister, Hon. Justina Marigold Assan who's currently on a business trip, Dr. Richmond Yeboah who happens to be the Public Relations Officer (PRO) for the Cape Coast Technical University eulogized the unflinching benefits craft works such as welding seize to provide the country, laying emphasizes on Ghana's ever-rising graduate unemployment, he said;
"Graduate unemployment is something all of us have faced in the past, as I finished school ten (10) whole years before getting a formal employment. But if I had done something technical, I would've started something for myself or betterstill would've gotten an opportunity elsewhere," he regretabily noted to encourage those in and that which is receiving a formal training on the profession to take it serious, as there are 1000's of opportunities in Germany and other parts of the world solely reserved for technical artisans he said.
The Ghana Welding Bureau has however appointed a three member substantive committee, which has one Mr. Mustapha Hameed as it's General Manager.
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Source: AfricaNewsArenaGh.Com
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