T'poly lauded for indigenous technological inventions

The Executive Director of Ghana National Museums and Monument Board (NMMB), Dr Zagba Narh Oyortey, has commended Takoradi Polytechnic for its indigenous technological inventions to help solve the local problems.

According to Dr Oyortey, Ghana needed indigenous technological innovations to bring about the required socio-economic development to solve the country's numerous challenges.

He made these remarks at a Science and Technology Exhibition in Takoradi meant to showcase science and technological inventions developed by Ghanaians to solve local challenges.

Such inventions, Dr Oyortey stressed, would help the nation to develop, as well as provide local solutions to national problems.

He called on the state to show interest and invest in local scientists in order to boost their confidence and motivate them to come up with more innovations to help Ghanaians. To him, the exhibits of Takoradi Polytechnic have proven that there is hope for the country.

“The time has come for the people to appreciate things generated by locals for every technology consumed.”

Some of the items presented at the exhibition by the Polytechnic included self-powered canoe for fishing, automatic sun solar tracking system, sound/wind activation lighting system, and a mobile telecommunication jammer.

The rest are an automatic traffic control system, ceramic, sculpture, textiles and graphic works meant to ease life and create jobs for the youth.

The Deputy Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Bernice Heloo, reckoned that development of every nation greatly depended on the state of development of science and technology.

Dr Heloo therefore assured the sector of government's support to help place science and technological innovations at the forefront of the national agenda.

Deputy Minister for Trade, Hon Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, also called on the educational sector and the public to help demystify science so that a lot of youth would be encouraged to take up its study and to use the knowledge so acquired to solve the country's problems.

Hon. Murtala Mohammed appealed to Ghanaians to have confidence and patronise indigenous technologies, for they serve as the pillars of any developed country.