Sugar displayed during commissioning of Komenda factory was bought - Carlos Ahenkorah reveals.
Previous Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Hon. Carlos Ahenkorah has unveiled that the Komenda sugar production line can never deliver sugar.
As per him, there are around 37 missing fundamental parts in the gear develop of the manufacturing plant and without those parts, the production line can't work to try and deliver some sugar.
Individuals from the Minority Caucus on Parliament's Trade, Industry and Tourism Committee say people whose activities prompted the non-operationalization of the Komenda sugar processing plant will be arraigned assuming that the resistance National Democratic Congress wins the following decisions.
They additionally accused the overseeing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for underestimating the cost of the industrial facility, which was fixed at US$50 million to US$12 million, consequently making monetary misfortune the state.
They blamed the ongoing organization for wading into controversy with the issues connecting with the production line and spreading verifiably mistaken accounts to score modest political focuses.
This became exposed in the wake of Ranking Member of Parliament's Trade, Industry and Tourism Committee, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah drove a designation to the production line to get direct data on the condition of the processing plant.
However, talking on Okay Fm's Ade Akye Abia program, he made sense of that when the NPP was casted a ballot into power they "contracted specialists to evaluate the reasonability of the processing plant to check whether they can make it functional to create sugar for neighborhood utilization and potentially for exportation. In any case, an escalated test directed by shrewd specialists with some from AESL showed that the undertaking missing the mark on 37 fundamental parts which without them the manufacturing plant can't work."
"All the more in this way, the venture was over evaluated. The Mahama organization let us know that the venture cost 35 million bucks however when we directed separate valuing of the task by two separate designing firms, the complete expense of the undertaking was 12 million bucks," he uncovered.
The Tema West MP further revealed that even the sugar that was supposedly displayed as a result of the industrial facility was purchased from
"The inquiry is the reason did the NDC toss the residue into the eyes of Ghanaians an overrated which is pretty much a trinket. The processing plant couldn't create even a 16 ounces of sugar since reports accessible to the Ministry of Trade and Industry demonstrate that the sugar that was exhibited during its charging was purchased from somebody.
"They really purchased 400 packs of sugar from somebody who later turned up at the service with receipts to request his cash yet we berated him and promised not to pay," Hon Ahenkorah said.
As far as he might be concerned, it won't be fitting for the Akufo Addo government to put resources into the Komenda sugar industrial facility once more.
"What the public authority ought to do now which I think they have previously begun is to find an essential financial backer who will siphon assets into the Komenda sugar manufacturing plant and keep the production line running for its motivation," he added.
blogpay
Total Comments: 0