ACCRA DIOCESAN SECRETARIAT SENDS-OFF 5 VETERAN STAFF

Story: Sarah Naa Merley Mensah & Emmanuel Ashong, Dansoman

A Send-Off Service has been organised for five veteran staff of the Accra Diocesan Secretariat of The Methodist Church Ghana on Thursday, June 30, 2022.

The five, Mr Martin Asante, Mr Yakubu Zakari, Mr Emmanuel Nkansah, Mr Enoch Allotey Acquaye and Mr Anthony Ghansah have altogether served the Diocese between 15 - 25 years in various capacities.

Mr Asante and Mr Nkansah served for 25 years and 18 years respectively as security officers, whiles Mr Zakari was engaged for 20 years in security and later sanitation portfolios. Mr Acquaye who was first employed in 2005 as a Factory Hand at the Accra Diocesan Moringa Factory and later to the position of a Horticulturalist served for 17 years. Mr Ghansah on the other hand was attached to the Youth Development Ministry and recently the Communication and Publications Office as a chauffeur for 15 years.  

Addressing the retirees at the brief ceremony which was organised at the Accra Diocesan Secretariat in Dansoman, the Methodist Bishop of Accra, the Rt Rev Emmanuel Borlabi Bortey told the retirees, “You are going with Jesus…place your hope in the Lord” adding “none of you should panic as Jesus captains your ship”. He encouraged them with the Book of Psalms not to put their trust in man but to “focus on the God of Jacob" adding “it is this God who lifts up the heads of the righteous and sustains the fatherless”.

The retirees were presented with unspecified cheque amounts which were jointly presented on behalf of the Diocese by Mr Jacob Bright Donkor, the Honorary Diocesan Treasurer and Mrs Christina Amoba Adjei, the Greater Accra Regional Manager of Methodist Schools.

Speaking on behalf of the retirees, Mr Nkansah expressed profound gratitude to the Diocese for a good working relationship over their period of service.

A representative of the staff, Mrs Doris Nelson, recounted some good working relationship with their retiring colleagues and thanked them for their long years of service.

The occasion was also used to send-off Mr Simon Nassadin who is on secondment to the Tamale Diocese to serve the Tatale Nursery Society as a Caretaker. Until his transfer, Mr Nassadin served the Diocese for 12 years as a Dispatch Clerk, assisting with administrative activities.