President John Mahama says the continuous growth of indigenous firms like Zoomlion Ghana Limited have become the envy of many people in the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to the President, many of his party supporters and sympathizers harbor the feeling that Zoomlion and some other thriving businesses in the country are owned by members of the opposition parties and want those businesses to fall.
He said those people believed that making those businesses to survive and keep expanding their frontiers under the governing NDC will be detrimental to their course, hence, the need to wipe them off from the system.
Addressing thousands of workers of Zoomlion Ghana Limited and other subsidiaries of the Jospong Group of Companies at the Trade Fair Center in Accra on Friday, December 2, 2016, the President Mahama said some NDC members were so bitter that they approached the late President John Evans Atta-Mills and himself to collapse those businesses.
“The history of our country is replete with businesses going down because government has changed. We will like to label our indigenous businessmen with a political paint brush. So, the person is running his business and we say oh he is an NPP businessman or an NDC business man or he is a CPP or GCPP businessman. And so when government changes, it is like you must run down all these businesses that are not on your side,” he said.
“Dr. Siaw Agyepong had started his business when we came into government. He established it under the illustrious administration of President John Agyekum Kufour. And so, by the time we came into office, his company had spread quite across the country,” he recounted.
He said upon winning power in 2008, many said Zoomlion has become a monopoly in the waste management sector and something must be done by government to allow other businesses to come in.
“But Prof. is very principled and determined person with my support said he (Dr. Agyepong) is a Ghanaian businessman and he is employing Ghanaians. It is the responsibility of the government to provide employment to our people and so whether he is red, green, or black as far as he is providing jobs in the economy, his business must thrive and continue,” Mr Mahama said.
He said his belief in Ghanaian businesses has seen protected a number of such firms develop over the last couple of years.
“As President, I believe strongly in the Ghanaian indigenous business persons. Our companies if they get the right support, they can prove themselves. That is what my government has been determined to do,” he noted.
“For me when it comes to Ghanaian businesses, I am colour blind...I am politically blind. It doesn’t matter who you are. As far as you are a Ghanaian and contributing to the growth of the economy, you have a right to do your business and earn a profit,” he added.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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This show that ex-prez john mahama is not matured and is incompetent to tell us this, he wash his dirty cloth in the public by telling us that "some NDC members were so bitter that they approached the late President John Evans Atta-Mills and himself to collapse those businesses". Its good ghanaians have shown you the exit, your inmaturity has cause ghana downfall and you have been a curse to private companies and ghana as a whole.
Next please!. You and your NDC party have done too much evil to this nation. Almost 60yrs after independence, PNDC and NDC have been in charge for more than half of those years. NPP has one full run of management under Kuffour. I get sad when some Ghanaians put the two parties at the same level when it comes to the opportunity of serving this nation. With this attitude of let's kill businesses of our opponents has lead to Ghana not progressing as it should. You are proud of this Mr Outgoing prez but I can tell you that you actually killed it with unnecessary competition in that business. God has seen you. We are now waiting for the next confession and that should be who killed Atta Mills.
waooh, what a revealation, can't believe my eyes a whole president revealing such a shocking statements to the natoin at this time of elction, if this is true then i'm sad for ghana.
mahama, fake oo fake
Adwene a 3wo mu trimu 3ny3....
BUT YOU HAVE DONE THAT KILLING BUSINESS MAHAMA
soon this man will confess everything they have been doing behind closed doors. "e bu b) ba" (e dey roll dey come). he speaks like a child i cant believe this man is leading a whole nation. how? God help us to change this man bcos he is too du.mb.
Between Prof Mills and Mahama, obviously Mills was the boss. It means it took the leadership of Mills to abort the plan, not Mahama's. Now looking at what I has since happened, and the volume of water that has gone under the bridge, the compromise was for Zoomlion and subsidiaries to pay the appropriate "dues" to the NDC party. Now check the GYEEDA modules the ensuing corruption and you can make your deductions. NDC is bad for business, and bad for Ghana! The kind of rot that is about to be exposed after they lose the elections will get Ghanaians WEEPING!
This president is not matured at all. Why will you confess something like that or Atta ghost is chasing you.
I am not surprise to hear this from the president, that his party NDC wanted him and the late President collapse a company. Thats their Hallmark killing business is what they do best. Is it out of hatred or envyness? just like their very foundation that brought them to this far? Lord have mercy.