Jospong Group of Companies and its flagship company, Zoomlion Ghana, on Tuesday, June 14, held a workshop on ethics and integrity for businesses in Ghana.

Chief Strategy Officer of Jospong Group of Companies, Mokhles Bustami, said the workshop, which was organized in collaboration with KPMG and the World Bank, demonstrates Jospong Group’s commitment to promoting the culture of compliance among businesses in the country.

In September 2013, Zoomlion Liberia and Zoomlion Ghana were blacklisted by the World Bank for two years over non-compliance issues.

After the implementation of compliance programme at these Jospong subsidiaries and many negotiations with the World Bank, the embargo was lifted.

The Group then decided to leverage on the lifting of the embargo and the Group and decided to expand the compliance programme at all its affiliates and subsidiaries.

“In retrospect, the Corporate Compliance Program, although initially challenging, has become an opportunity to improve things around and embrace a new compliance across all local and foreign subsidiaries of the Jospong Group,” said Mokhles Bustami.

He said the Group has created and maintained a trust-based and inclusive organisational culture that encourages ethical conduct, a commitment to comply with the law and an environment in which misconduct is not tolerated.

Jospong Group of Companies is the parent company of Zoomlion Ghana Limited with over 40 other businesses in Ghana and other parts of the world.

Zoomlion Ghana Limited, its flagship company, is a giant in the waste management as well as environmental sanitation business in Ghana and Africa as a whole.

Zoomlion Ghana currently has a total core staff of 3,000 and manages over 85,000 workers under various forms of public-private partnerships (PPP).

Zoomlion operates in other African countries such as Togo, Angola, Zambia, Equatorial Guinea and Liberia while negotiations are far advanced for the company to start operations in other African countries.