'Refining Improved  Raw Sugar At Komenda Project Doesn't Make Economy Sense'

'I have listened to several media interviews granted by 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, Honourable Solomon Ebo Appiah that, they would import raw sugar to be refined at the Komenda Sugar Factory. 

This revelation from the MCE, according to him, has come to confirm his earlier assertion that, the government has an unholy agreement with some sugar importers who wish sugar is not produced locally. 

He, therefore, stated that the decision to import raw sugar to be refined at Komenda is an avenue to augment the sugar importation business. 

He explained that it is incomprehensible for a government to engage in raw sugar importation, while the factory was established to serve as an import substitute. 

According to him, it has also emerged that a whopping US$11 million has been used to renovate the processing plant. 

In this situation, he noted that the Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Alan John Kwadwo 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. 

He stressed that Mr. Kyerematen has committed financial loss to the state due to a lack of serious attention to the factory, loss of time, inefficiency, and improper decision-making. 

"And also allowing the national asset to deliberately debilitate, to blame their political opponent.

"Just as I have always done in the face of wicked propaganda, lies, and smear campaign against the John Mahama-constructed Komenda Sugar Factory, I once again, strongly reiterate that the Komenda Sugar Factory as bequeathed to the Akufo Addo/ Bawumia led administration was always viable, economically productive and overly suitable to provide jobs and its related benefits to the good people of Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem, Central Region and Ghana as a whole," he stated.