Kosmos supports 21st GJA Awards
The Vice-President and Country Manager of Kosmos Energy, Ghana, Mr. Joe Mensah has urged the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) and its members to continue to work closely with the corporate world to ensure convergence on issues that will better inform the public.
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Speaking after presenting a cheque for GH¢20,000 to support this year’s GJA Awards, he said Kosmos Energy had been associated with media practitioners through the GJA and other activities directly with the media over the past four years.
Kosmos, he said, will continue to strengthen its relationship with the media.
“As the media, you have the greatest privilege and responsibility of reaching out to the masses with credible information.
“Therefore we as individual groups cannot take on this task in isolation, we need to work together with the media as a team as we achieve our goal of helping to build our nation,” he said.
Mr. Mensah said Kosmos would continue to look for different ways to motivate the media and that in the past awards it had supported the anti-corruption category. “This time we are adding the Agribusiness category.”
The support for the agriculture category is in line with its latest social investment project, Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) that seeks to support the development of the various sectors in Ghana, starting with agriculture.
KIC initiative
“With the new KIC initiative, Kosmos seeks to empower the youth to adopt innovative ideas to solve developmental challenges in the country, and the motivation for seeking these close ties with the media and therefore supporting the fourth consecutive time the awards event.
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The Kosmos team, he said, recognised that information about the industry and its operations as Kosmos and by extension its partners – Tullow, GNPC, Petro SA and Anadarko with the Jubilee and the TEN fields should be made available to the public.
The dynamics in the industry therefore need to be told to the Ghanaian public in ways to inform them about the contribution being made by the industry; and to excite them about the benefits it held presently and in the future.
Transparency
Kosmos Energy, he said, would want to encourage transparency as it continued to engage the media through workshops about the oil and gas life cycle, and encourage professional journalism and transparency in Ghana.
Such collaborations, he said would continue to ensure that the media and Kosmos would work together to bring to the public, information about the industry and the benefits that had accrued to the nation since Kosmos’ discovery of oil in 2007.
The General Secretary of the GJA, Mr. David Agbenu commended Kosmos Energy for its consistency to and support for media work in the country.
He said the media should not be seen as an antagonistic entity, but rather a development partner that would discharge its duties to advance the cause of society and speak for the underprivileged.
Mr Agbenu said it was important to ensure that, there was collaboration at all levels to avert information asymmetry to allow professional dissemination of information for the benefit of society.