The Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) has held a thanksgiving service to express appreciation to God for a successful year.

The annual event, which was the ninth, brought together all GAEC staff and students to show their appreciation to God through worship, singing and exhortations.

Prof. Kwame Aboh, the Deputy Director-General of the Commission, said 2014 had been very challenging in terms of funding. f

He said it was unfortunate that funding from government for the year had delayed and that the Commission had not received any monies at all from government for either research work or for its administrative operations apart from the staff salaries from the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department.

The Commission, he said, was battling with about eight court disputes which were draining its already depleted financial coffers because the government was not supporting it in any way.

Prof. Aboh cited other challenges as the massive encroachments on GAEC lands, which hampered the smooth operations of the Commission and threatened the safety and security of the Reactor, but lack of funding had restricted the Commission from fencing its lands to control the negative activities of the public.

He said encroachers had built very close to where the Reactor is and this is dangerous for both the residents and the facility itself as any accident could be disastrous.

Rev Daniel Yerenkyi, Resident Pastor of the Baptist Church, Atomic, in a Sermon titled “Through it all God has Been Good to us”, as individuals and as a nation “we need to show gratitude to God for His grace and mercies sustenance throughout the year.

He said the world and for that matter those who trust in God were not immune to problems and challenges, but in the face of all that they were given power and the strength to overcome them.

He said showing gratitude to God must not be dependent on whether things were going right or wrong, but as a people of a unique nation, there should be joy in the assurance of God’s love, preservation and security in Him for good health, long life and sustained peace amidst all fiscal and economic challenges.