Scouts Association recovers property (6/1/09)

THE Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Ghana Scout Association (GSA) is in the process of recovering all properties of the association following the removal of their chief scout commissioner and his deputy in November 2008.
Prior to this, the IMC had drawn up plans to find out the validity of any tenancy agreement between the GSA and such bodies as the Global Revival Ministry and all squatters on its premises.
This was disclosed by the Chairman of the IMC, Mr Samuel Seshie Sowah, in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra.
He said the move was part of measures adopted by the IMC to retrieve all properties of the GSA after taking over from the commissioner and his deputy.
He said on November 27, 2008 when the commissioners failed to hand over to the committee, the IMC went ahead and locked all the doors to the national headquarters in Accra and the National Scout Training Centre at Sakyikrom.
Mr Sowah said the IMC had since begun work in full swing to move the association forward after taking over the offices.
He said regional delegates of the GSA had endorsed a special annual general meeting (AGM) in line with Article 7 of their constitution and given the IMC the mandate to appoint a chief scout commissioner and a deputy to assist him.
“This is aimed at enabling the GSA to have substantive officers in place in order to solve the outstanding administrative lapses in our fold,” he stated.
The IMC, he added, had declared the positions of the commissioner and his deputy vacant and called on all prospective candidates, who were capable of meeting the requirements enshrined in their constitution to submit their names and Curriculum Vitae (CV) to the GSA.
The IMC also made three recommendations for the amendment of the GSA constitution, which included swearing the oath of office, a code of ethics for future office holders and the decentralisation of the issue of membership ID cards to the various regions for the approval of members of the GSA.