Nation-Wrecking Deal, As Akufo-Addo Gov’t Imports Raw Sugar For Refining At Komenda Factory

Former Secretary to the Komenda Sugar factory Board of Directors, Mr. Chatman Vani-Amoah, has said that the Akufo-Addo government’s strange decision to import raw sugar to be refined at the Komenda sugar factory only proves his suspicion of a nation-wrecking and deliberate sabotage.

In a write-up, he says the move confirms that the government has deliberately disallowed the Komenda sugar factory to come fully into operation just so that sugar importers in the country can continue their import business.

“I have listened to several media interviews granted by Hon. Solomon Ebo Appiah, the Municipal Chief Executive for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem, who doubles as a member of the Management Board of the Komenda Sugar Development Company Limited, saying they would import raw sugar to be refined at the Komenda Sugar Factory. This revelation from the MCE has come to confirm my earlier assertion that, the government has an unholy agreement with some sugar importers who wish sugar is not produced locally. Therefore, the decision to import raw sugar to be refined at Komenda is an avenue to augment the sugar importation business,” he wrote.

“It is incomprehensible for a government to engage in raw sugar importation, while the factory was established to serve as an import substitute.”

The Komenda Sugar Factory has been a national tragedy after the Mahama government bequeathed it to the Akufo-Addo government.

The current government has not been able to put the factory into use claiming that the former government had not made proper provisions for the cultivation of sugar cane to feed the factory.

This is in spite of the former government saying there was a facility from the Indian government that the current government has refused to access.

As part of the mess, this government which has been claiming that it wants to build one factory in every district, at a point announced it was looking for investors to buy the factory.

The alleged nation-wrecking arrangement in respect of the Komenda sugar factory exists also in respect of the Tema Oil Refinery which sources say has been deliberately left unrepaired while government exports its share of petroleum at cheap prices and imports refined petroleum products at higher prices because if it is repaired, the refinery will make it possible to refine petroleum locally and this will affect the import business of the vested interests.

Meanwhile, Mr, Vani-Amoah also accuses Trade Minister, Alan Kyeremanten of causing a financial loss of US$11million to the state in regards to supposed repairs of the Komenda sugar factory, calling for his arrest and prosecution.

“It has also emerged that a whopping US$11 million has been used to renovate the processing plant. In this situation, Hon. Alan Kyerematen should be charged for willfully causing financial loss to the state for a deliberate decision in allowing the state-of-the-art investment to go waste without any justifiable reason, except to spend US$11 million to renovate the processing plant,” Vani-Amoah fired.

“He has committed Financial Loss to the State due to lack of serious attention to the factory, loss of time, inefficiency and improper decision-making. And also allowing the national asset to deliberately debilitate, so as to blame their political opponent.”