Former Director of Communications & Strategy for the Komenda Sugar Factory, Mr. Ransford Vanni-Amoah, has rubbished statements made by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that government is in the process of finding a strategic investor to revive the “debt-ridden and idle” Komenda Sugar Factory as “untrue and lack of political will” to operate the factory.
According to him the government under ex-President John Dramani Mahama handed over every document concerning the factory to this current government including strategic investors who were ever ready to partner government to finance the project.
“ . . It is captured in our handing over note that we gave them that, yes, there are eleven different investors both local and foreign ready to partner government realize the purpose of the project,” he said.
Therefore, he sees the turn around by government to start everything afresh as if the NDC started nothing to be continued as a political gimmick to paint the past government black.
“President Akufo-Addo and his government have intentionally thrown that report away due to their lack of political will to operate the factory under a document the past government handed them,” he asserted in an interview with Citi FM news.
BACKGROUND
President Akufo-Addo during his Friday, 14th September, 2018, firsthand visit to the Komenda Sugar Factory stressed thE need for a strategic investor to operate the factory because his administration, upon assuming office on 7th January, 2017, inherited a non-operational Komenda Sugar Factory.
He was addressing a durbar of chiefs and people of Komenda, in the Central Region at the commencement of his 4-day tour of the Region.
The President noted that, after its commissioning in 2016, the Komenda Sugar Factory has not undertaken any commercial processing of sugarcane into sugar, due to serious deficiencies in the planning of the project.
These deficiencies, he said, include the unavailability of sugarcane in sufficient quantities in the catchment area, as well as inadequate working capital required to make the factory functional.
Additionally, it has also been determined that the general soil condition of the available land is not wholly suitable for sugarcane cultivation, and will require substantial amounts of fertilizer input to improve the yields.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Charles Wayo such a f000**000l has no business talking about national issues, they come on social media just to express their h*te and ign**r*ance! if h*te is success you people would have succeeded long time, but still you are worst of than before! Ghana is was not and is not and will never be ndc pocket property, God forbid ! who cares about an ndc thi*f ranting over their mess in Ghana? handing over papers didn't make ndc did a good job. Ndc handed over papers covering presidential pool but when inspected over 200 cars were missing but they had them all in record they were in the pool what are you talking about! you people make Ghanaian voters angry over your arrogance and insulting nature, when in actual fact most of you have never worked to success! ndc are very annoying papa and they will rot in opposition!Your hope Charlotte Osei is more to allow your other constituency in ECOWAS to vote, she is mot there to massage figures for you to rig and win, every Ghanaian will use Ghana Card to vote to prove to the world if ndc is a likable party in Ghana. You lost in 2008 and won on run off because of Prof. Mills 'may his soul rest in peace' you lost in 2012 and every Ghanaian knows it after the election petition and just laston the Dr Afari Djan has confirmed you rigged the elections to win. Ghanaians became their own vigilante group to protect their ballots hence ndc massive lost, yet still they deceiving themselves and talking nons*nse on every platform they get the opportunity to talk. Ndc will rot in opposition with these your characters.
You remember what JM's ministers did to him? Some of them lied to him whiles he sat comfortably in the flagstaff house thinking everything was going on smoothly and his victory in the 2016 election was a done deal, you see where he ended? Unfortunately the mind set of our people is such that if you assign responsibilities and you don't keep your eye on the ball (corporate world included) and do a little bit of micro managing in our part of the world, you will reap results that could end your career.
Mr. President, please you are simply sleeping on your job.Just roaming around for publicity sake as though you are doing something. Can you allow your vice president and your 111 ministers take part of the duties? a good leader assign responsibilities. Today you are here, tomorrow you are there, moving around everywhere. Who do you want to impress. Just busy body for no results?
You allowed yourself to be used. Why was the factory inaugurated when all fundamental issues had not been resolved. Were you expecting the new government to just accept what was handed over to them? What strategy did you put in place as Director of Communication and Strategy. The newly inaugurated factory was an empty nutshell. DO NOT CRY OVER YOUR INACTIONS.