STC REBRANDING

  The State Transport Company, STC is undergoing rebranding as part of measures to keep the company in business in the keen competitive transport environment. In line with the project, the company, with the assistance of the government, is expected to receive about 45 new buses to augment its existing fleet. 

Speaking in an interview with Radio Ghana in Accra, the Managing Director of the company, Samuel Nuamah Donkor disclosed that as a strategy, the management has resolved to name the buses after past Presidents, former Fist Ladies and certain prominent citizens of Ghana and will be deployed to the various routes across the country.

 Mr. Nuamah Donkor disclosed also that the first two buses received are to be named after Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and that its routes will be closely monitored to ascertain their patronage. On the state of the company on his first anniversary in charge of the STC, Mr. Nuamah Donkor expressed satisfaction with the rate of progress. 

He said at the time of his assumption of office, STC was reeling under serious managerial and financial challenges such that some of its buses had even been seized by the law courts following legal actions instituted by some of the company’s creditors. Similarly, the company could not pay its part of the staff Provident Fund coupled with low staff morale due to unpaid salaries for months due to the poor financial standing of the company. 

The Managing Director noted that within the one year that he has been in office, the STC has paid the 10 million Ghana Cedis outstanding contribution to the staff Provident Fund. Mr. Nuamah Donkor announced that STC plans to procure a ferry to primarily convey staff from Tema to Accra mostly in the rush hours to beat road traffic. This is part of the strategies to further motivate the staff who are now being paid their monthly salaries regularly.