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Giving exceptional services to Ghanaian homes with gas installation
Mr. Emmanuel Excellove Egyabeng receiving an award.
Making sure most Ghanaian Homes are equipped with proper gas installation has been a dicey situation in our society.
However, ensuring a proper gas installation and maintaining good practices of using gas is essential in our Ghanaian setting to prevent risks associated with fire outbreaks.
The Spectator profile delves into the life of an enthusiastic man who is providing sterling services and creating awareness about gas installation at homes and industries.
Mr. Emmanuel Excellove Egyabeng, Chief Executive Officer of Excellove Engineering Services in an interview with The Spectatorexplains the need for ensuring safety at all times when one uses gas for domestic and industrial purposes.
The use of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG), has been a major use of cooking fuel in developed areas and is classified as a clean burning fuel that has low carbon and emits virtually no black carbon.
Its usage, like the two-sided coin has its pros and cons when handled with an oversight.
Bio Data
This skilled installation expert hails from Agona Duakwa in the Central Region of Ghana but has lived most of his early life in Accra where he started his basic school at Teshie and later relocated to Mallam.
Mr. Egyebeng parents, Sarah Acquah and Mr. Joseph Egyebeng are all alive.
He narrated that, his father was an Accountant General who worked with the Information Services Department.
Motive/Aspirations
After Secondary School education, he delved into engineering.
As a man with great sense of purpose, he told The Spectator that, he is poised to make outstanding feats in his endeavours to promote quality and safety through service deliveries in all his engineering works.
“I am an optimistic person who always wants to acquire valuable skills through building on professional prowess by learning current technologies and tools used in my line of work,” he said.
He mentioned that, he always goes the extra mile to unleash his peculiar potentials imbibed in him and has loved to work on big projects and some notable thermal plants in the country.
Youth Empowerment
Aspiring to be Ghana’s top engineering services provider, the Gas piping installation engineering expert mentioned that he takes keen interest in training the Ghanaian youth to venture into all the services provided by Excello Engineering which would serve as a gateway for their financial liberation.
According to him, training the youth would help bridge the unemployment gap among them in the nation, which could help alleviate poverty among the unemployed.
Mr. Egyabeng advised the youth to branch into areas which involve vocational and technical training by seeing it as a viable alternative to harness the talents for financial and economic well-being.
“This work is lucrative and a youth who would delve into this venture at an early stage would make a lot of income and enjoy significant bene fits”, he added.
Professionalism
The Director reiterated that, his outfit has the best of tools and personnel who deliver quality services in Gas piping installation, fire suppression system, gas safety cylinder cage, gas leakage detectors, domestic gas cooker service, industrial kitchen design and set-up among others.
Enthusiasm
With staunch passion in propagating the need for gas usage safety and other engineering precautions, the dedicated Christian draws his motivation by seeing the work he does as an evangelism to spread the need for safety among all to hear and practise.
“I see the nature of my job as an advocate who is rescuing the perishing that lacks information on gas usage and its installation”, he stressed.
Others
The skillful engineer speaks English, Fante, Ga, and Twi, and also loves athletics and can cook variety of foods. “I can cook sumptuous meals and even prepare exotic breakfast”, he disclosed.
Partnership
The experienced gas engineer has worked with notable brands including Servair Ghana, Manbah Gas among others has partnered with Excello Engineering services to embark on projects.
He called on both public and private entities to invest in projects that can help in sensitising the need for best practices while dealing with gas and its related equipment.
By Spectator Reporter
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Youth urged to take proactive stance on ozone depletion
•Mr Joseph Amankwah, first counting from, some officials from EPA and UNDP in group picture with the student
Mr Joseph Amankwah, the Director of Ozone Layer and Climate Change at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has urged the youth to take a proactive stance on issues related to ozone depletion, emphasising that their future would be most affected by its consequences.
Speaking during a student engagement event at the Ghana Secondary School (GHANASS) in Koforidua, he highlighted the critical role young people played in tackling climate-related challenges.
Mr Amankwah explained that human activities, such as the use of certain chemicals, were significantly contributing to the depletion of the ozone layer and driving climate change.
He said it was important to educate the youth on these issues, encouraging them to share this knowledge with their families to foster a broader understanding and active participation in climate action.
He urged the education sector to integrate lessons on the ozone layer, the causes of its depletion, and its links to climate change into the curriculum.
The event, organised by the EPA in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), was designed to foster environmental awareness and promote a sense of responsibility among young people.
Mr Amankwah noted that ozone layer depletion was affecting everyone, including children, as it alters weather patterns and threatens the natural environment.
He highlighted the need for young people to develop ‘green skills’ to adapt to the challenges of climate change and to understand ways to combat it.
He added that World Ozone Day, observed every September, would focus on youth engagement in environmental issues, to help them understand the long-term consequences of ozone depletion and climate change.
Mr Amankwah also discussed the harmful impact of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), a major chemical contributor to ozone depletion.
He explained that household appliances such as refrigerators and air conditioners were common sources of CFC emissions in Ghana.
Many uncertified technicians work on these appliances, often releasing harmful chemicals into the atmosphere due to improper handling, he noted.
To address this, he urged appliance repairers to obtain proper certification and training, emphasising that unqualified repairs not only harm the environment but also endangered public health.
From Ama Tekyiwaa Ampadu Agyeman,
Koforidua
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Small-scale miners schooled on health hazards of mining with mercury
Mr Lovelace Sarpong (right) addressing the participants
Some Artisanal and Small-Scale Miners in the Ashanti and Central regions have been sensitised on the potential health dangers humans are exposed to with the use of mercury in gold processing.
The sensitisation which was organised by PlanetGOLD Ghana project was to raise awareness about the negative impacts on the use of mercury in mining activities.
According to the PlanetGOLD Ghana Project Coordinator, Mr Lovelace Sarpong, the use of mercury in artisanal small-scale mining pose health challenges that affects the nervous, digestive and immune systems, lungs and kidneys; and may be fatal.
Some Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) that benefited from the exercise were Amansie Central, Asante Akim North, Amansie South, Amansie West, Bekwai, and Adansi North in the Ashanti Region, and Upper Denkyira East (Dunkwa-on-Offin) and Upper Denkyira West (Diaso) in the Central Region.
Additionally, he said inorganic salts of mercury were corrosive to the skin, eyes and gastrointestinal tract, and may induce kidney toxicity if ingested.
He stated that the PlanetGOLD Project has conducted several initiatives to raise awareness on reducing mercury exposure among artisanal and small-scale gold mining actors in the country.
It was to promote mercury-free mining practices in line with Ghana’s obligations under the Minamata Convention on Mercury, support the formalisation of the ASGM sector while advocating the adoption of the CRAFT Code and responsible supply chains, and raise awareness on the availability of mercury-free alternatives.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Area Head for Konongo, Mr Dawood Abbas, underscored the importance of government’s environmental regulations and EPA’s role in ensuring compliance within the ASGM sector.
He encouraged miners to prioritise environmental stewardship to gain community trust and secure a Social License to Operate (SLO) and reaffirmed the Agency’s commitment to enforce its commitments under the Minamata Convention.
BY Cecilia Lagba Yada
