The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison, has opened the Central bank’s Data and Disaster Recovery Centre at Ahinsan Estate in the newly created Asokwa Municipality of the Ashanti region.
The Centre is to serve as a back- up to ensure a seamless business continuity plan of the bank in times of emergencies, when it cannot rely on its Head office in Accra.
The Data and Disaster Recovery Centre is part of Bank of Ghana’s Computerisation Project code-named ‘Impact Zero-Five’ launched in 2005 to improve and modernise processes to achieve continuous transformation.
Incidental to this initiative have been the implementation of some technology-driven critical computerisation projects leading to the building of the conversion of some offices of the Bank at the main office into its Data and Disaster Recovery Centre.
The new Data and Disaster Recovery Centre at Ahinsan Estate began in 2016 with STL as the project contractors, the execution of which lasted two years.
The 2,890 square kilometre land on which it is located, although was owned by the Bank of Ghana, had been occupied for many years by squatters which took the intervention of the Asantehene to reclaim for this project.
The Centre with sophisticated security arrangement is also disability-friendly with many critical facilities for mainstream operations of the bank.
As part of the Central Bank’s corporate social responsibility, the organisation will upgrade all roads around the facility as well as build a new bridge over the Susa River nearby to ease movement of residents and people to and from the vicinity.
The steel pedestrian bridge over that river was last July destroyed by flood waters when the river burst its banks, leaving the residents frustrated.
The MP for Forikrom, Dr. Emmanuel Marfo, commended the Bank for the decision to ease the movement difficulties of people in the environs.
The Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Ernest Addison, explained that, the Data and Disaster Recovery Centre conforms to international standards in business continuity and standardisation.
