Accra, March 11, GNA - The Board of the Volta Region Development Agency (VORDA) has appointed Nana Owusu-Afari, Chairman and Chief Executive of Africa Group of Companies, and Togbe Patamia Dzekley (VII), Paramount Chief of Bator and Chief Executive of First Ghana Building Society, as its Directors.

A statement by VORDA and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Thursday said it (VORDA) resolved to appoint the two personalities at a meeting it held in Accra on March 3, 2010. The statement said the appointees would bring their immense experience and widely acknowledged business, managerial and economic development skills to the work of the Board and the development of the Region.

It said the appointment of Nana Owusu-Afari, who is also the current President of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Co-founder and Director of Amalgamated Bank Limited, and serves on the Board of the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) and Togbe Patamia Dzekley (VII), also a renowned Banker and Business Executive, meant that the VORDA Board had reached its full compliment of 13 members. Other members include Togbe Afede (XIV), Agbogbomefia of Asogli State and President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, Board Chairman, Nana Soglo Alloh (IV), Otekple of Likpe Traditional Area and Vice President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, Togbe Tetpre Hodo (IV), Fiaga and President of Anfoega Traditional Council, Nana Mprah Besemuna, Krachiwura, Togbui Kporku (III), Dufia of Alakple and Mamaga Akosua, also known as Cornelia von Wulfing, Ngoyifia of Sasadu Traditional Areas.

The rest are Mr Ernest Kwame Nyagbe, a Public Sector Management Expert, Mr Victor Chubby Larbi, a Business Executive, Geologist and Oil Trader, Mr Appiah-Danquah Kufuor, Business Executive and Economist, serving as Member and Chief Executive. It said with the Board membership now fully constituted, it would now focus on its immediate priority which was to see to the full delivery of the five-year Volta Region Economic Development Plan, in particular the implementation of its three-year flagship projects 96 the building of an Agro-Fish Farming Processing Centre at Dambai, a Hospitality and Catering Skills Facility in Ho and a Construction and Enterprise Centre of Excellence at Denu.