The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe popularly known as Abronye DC is blaming former President John Dramani Mahama for the excessive corruption and mismanagement at the Tema harbour.
He made a wild allegation on NEAT FM’s morning show, 'Ghana Montie', Wednesday, August 16, 2023, that the now NDC flagbearer 'sold' the biggest port in the country for his selfish interest.
An allegation he was asked by host Mc Jerry Osei-Agyemang to justify but gave a feeble response to that.
Abronye as affectionately called by his political peers maintained that Mr Mahama “sold the harbour for 35 years. And today Mahama is the reason why Tema harbour is at its current shambolic state.”
Listen to the full interview below
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French billionaire Vincent Bolloré added Tema to the 15 West African ports he already controlled by ripping off the country, a secret report says. By Andrew Weir DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THIS SPECIAL REPORT Copyright © Africa Confidential 2021 The French ports-to-media conglomerate, Bolloré Africa Logistics, partnered by the Danish shipping giant Maersk's ports arm, APM Terminals, opened a hugely profitable, state-of-the-art container terminal at Ghana's Tema port in July 2019. It's the latest link in a chain of 18 West African container terminals run by the French billionaire and his partners. Africa Confidential has uncovered how they won the right to build and run the new container port of Tema, a lifeline not only for Ghana but for landlocked Burkina Faso and Mali, through their 70% owned joint venture with the Ghana government, Meridian Port Services (MPS). It is a tale of intrigue based on the Westerners' 'lack of transparency and ethical discipline', according to the secret ministerial report drafted by Ghanaian officials, which Africa Confidential has seen, and our own research. The terms of the agreements between MPS and the state are so tilted against Ghana's interests, concluded the report, delivered to ministers in February 2018, they should be renegotiated immediately. Yet the much-criticised contracts are still unchanged. The concessions Bolloré won from Ghana are similar to those which he obtained for his operations at the port of Lomé, Togo, in return for financing a top political consultancy to help the country's president, Faure Gnassingbé, win re-election in 2010. On 26 February this year Bolloré and two of his fellow executives admitted, in a plea bargain, to bribing the Togolese president in exchange for favours at the port, and were fined €375,000 each. Bolloré's company paid a €12 million fine (see Box, Bolloré – a monopoly in every port). The judge was so shocked by what they had done in Togo she rejected details of the plea bargain and ordered a trial of the executives. Ghana's ministerial investigation and Africa Confidential's research show how Bolloré and his foreign partners: persuaded then-President John Dramani Mahama to award MPS a new container terminal contract in secret, with no tender or bids, in 2014, violating procurement laws; overstated the planned investment by a factor of two which won tax holidays worth $832 million from an unwitting parliament; surreptitiously cut Ghana's equity in MPS to 15% after first agreeing to 30%; persuaded the government to allow it a monopoly on handling containers, putting thousands of jobs at other port concerns at risk and driving up prices, and to set tariffs; reduced the fees payable to the government over the life of the concession by $4.1 billion (see Bar Chart, How the contract terms changed at Ghana's expense)........"
Your government made it worse. We believed in Nana Addo to correct all these things but making things worse. He does not listen to the people who brought him to power .He disgraced Prof. Frimpong and others who were telling him the truth, but he should know darkness can never overcome light.
I won't bother to read anything from this character. In the run-up to the 2016, such people appeared to have received some listening from Ghanaians not because they particularly made sense or were good communicators but because most Ghanaians were tired of the NDC. Today, they're have lost that entirely with the poor governance they have given us and the unprecedented corruption we have seen from them, somebody should tell this guy to ***barred word***, because it annoys us to even see them. Anyway, granted whatever he said is even true, whiles Mahama has brought the Tema port into a mess, Akufo Addo and Bawumiah have brought the entire Ghana into mess and chaos, we know it for ourselves. No descent people consider them anymore, let them get it.
poor write up. where is the other side of the story about the Tema Harbour? whether sold or lease or rented, that information can't be a confidential document, going the extra mile as journalist to give a balance report is your duty. Do better next time.
Gyime ne!
This ***barred word*** Abronye talks anyhow. Anytime I see him I do not feel comfortable because he only talks trash without any evidence and truth. Your time is very limited. This goat was able to loot Ghana's money to organize such an extravagance funeral for his dead father. I blame the father for bringing forth such an ape to this world to disturb the peace of Ghanaians.
Truth Check French court Judge comment on offending company, Bollard, Togo elections, MPS.