The Unionised Staff of Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited have applauded Mr George Mensah Okley, the Managing Director, for his good leadership and sense of purpose in the running of the company.

“Mr Okley is one of the most hardworking, result-driven and fair-minded Managing Director to have come to BOST and we the Unionized Staff are fully behind him.

“It takes a rare breed of individual in Ghana to decide to work with people based on their competence and integrity; and not on one’s political affiliation,” the Union said in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Wednesday.

It was signed jointly by Mr Abdul Rahman, Senior Staff Chairman; Mr Ekow Sey, Senior Staff Secretary; Mr Louis Doe Anku, Local Union Chairman; and Mr Peter Akoma Agyarko, Local Union Secretary.

The vote of confidence by the Union comes amid accusations of wrongdoing against the BOST management and the MD by some people.

The statement said “any right-thinking person who has the corporate interest of BOST at heart should applaud Mr. Okley’s exemplary leadership and not to condemn him”.

“We, Unionised Staff of BOST categorically distance ourselves from the obvious political orchestrated petitions and statements and also urge Ghanaians to equally treat same with the contempt it deserves.

“We believe his achievements deserve mention rather than this desperate attempt by these faceless individuals to tarnish his image.”

They gave the MD high marks for securing funding and technical partners to upgrade BOST depots and for restoring integrity to operations at all BOST depots.

Added to these, has been the fostering of a better and clearer relationship with the Bulk Distribution Companies (BDCs), something that has given the company a competitive edge.

It said the MD was also leading BOST in negotiations to purchase a Depot in the Western Region with a Ghanaian Bank to establish some presence in that part of the country.

“We are also planning on building a Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) network to support the delivery of government’s cylinder Recirculation Model.

“The MD has successfully renegotiated and is at the stage of shipping into the country pipelines to refurbish the existing degraded pipeline between Accra plains depot and our transit depot in Akosombo.

“The contract has been awarded and the project will start within the next couple of weeks. This is a milestone in the history of the company because these pipelines were locked up in Houston, USA for the past ten years and no previous BOST MD was able to do what he has done within his short stay in office”.

The statement noted that under the current MD’s watch, BOST was forging strong alliances and building confidence of the banking and investment community.

“The good news is that we are well on course to achieve this milestone as well with excellent financial practices and compliance with regulations.”

It called for the government, workers and the general public to ignore what it labelled as the “rumour mongers” and give the hardworking MD the peace of mind to perform.