The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), Dr. Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has been awarded the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Decade.

Dr. Siaw Agyepong won the award at the 5th Ghana Business Awards (GBAs) held on Saturday, October 29, 2022, at the Kempinski Hotel, Accra.

At the awards ceremony, three subsidiaries within the JGC won various awards including the Logistics Service Provider of the Year - JSA Logistics Limited; Community Impact Award of the Year - Dredge Masters Limited; and Hall of Fame in the Sanitation Industry - Zoomlion Ghana Limited.

In an interview, the Chief Corporate Communication Officer (CCCO) of the JGC, Ms. Sophia Kudjordji, on behalf of the group thanked the organisers for the acknowledgement of their numerous services and the Executive Chairman who is striving to create job opportunities across the country and beyond.

“At Jospong Group of Companies, we value every clientele because they have made us who we are today and for that matter, being acknowledged and awarded”, she acclaimed.

She further indicated that management and staff were poised to continue to provide quality and efficient services to the business community and Ghana at large.

She, therefore, used the occasion to thank staff and management for their resilience and commitment to the mission and objectives of JGC in their small way by ‘improving lives wherever we find ourselves',

“Management appreciates and values every single sweat, ideas, energy of every staff in their quest to provide excellent services, hence satisfying its clientele in waste management, hospitality, IT consultancies, manufacturing and construction among others, across the length and breadth of Ghana and beyond”, she reiterated.

The Chief Operating Officer of JGC, Dr. Samanjith Udumalagala, received the CEO of the Dacade award on behalf of the Group Executive Chairman, Dr. Agyepong, while Captain Ansar Khan, Managing Director of Dredge Masters and his team received their Community Impact Award.

Some dignitaries present were Madam Samia Nkrumah (former Chairperson of the CPP and daughter of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah), the Spanish Ambassador to Ghana, Javier Gutierrez and the Ambassador of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Meshal Hamda Al-Rogi.

The Ghana Business Awards is a prestigious awards scheme that recognises and rewards excellence across all sectors in Ghana.

The awards provide a platform to recognise individuals and companies that play significant roles in the growth and development of their business sector while recognising the key sector that promotes growth and sustainability.