Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress has accused the government of deliberately targeting him for financial persecution.
The man popularly referred to as General Mosquito alleged that the government had deliberately set out to cripple him financially by running his businesses aground.
He disclosed on Starr Chat on Accra-based Starr FM, March 2, 2022; that his four blockmaking factories are suffering because of the failure of the government to honour financial obligations to contractors he works with.
Asked about life in opposition being hell, he responded: “As far as I am concerned, I wouldn’t say life (in opposition) is hell that much because as a General Secretary, my life doesn’t change whether we are in government or we are in opposition.
“The only area where I think it hurts is where there is a deliberate effort by a ruling government to destroy your business with the thinking that when you are weak financially, you will come begging them.
“My businesses have been destroyed. Everybody knows me to be into blockmaking, and all four block factories I was operating, none of them is functioning properly now. One is limping, as for the three I have stopped production completely,” he revealed.
He recounted an instance with a District Assembly in Dodowa, where he supplied pavement blocs to a contractor, who had been given assurances of payment by the Assembly after a pressing task was discharged.
General Mosquito said his factory supplied blocks for a project that has been completed and commissioned “but the Assembly has refused to pay the contractor so I remain unpaid. So, all the money that I should be using to buy material is locked up. It is deliberate.”
He added that the deliberate nature of the incident is because funding for the project was from a secured source and the Assembly had expressly committed to pay prior to supply.
Asiedu Nketia said he has reported to two local government ministers “but nothing has happened yet.”
He stressed: “I don’t have the appetite to take them to court yet.”
Source: ghanaweb.com
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Are there no more cement, sand, and water to lay your blocks? Go and compete with the ordinary Ghanaians. Dubious people hiding under this so-called block factory to loot from Ghanaians.
What about your numerous filling stations too Asiedu nketia and de biggest goil filling station at Afienya Mataheko Road bro. The riches and wealth u have amassed so please shut-up u hear me. U call for coup and we will go after those properties of urs. Foo ls.
How do you expect your factory to exist when you use 'sachet' water to mix concrete? How many blocks did you supply to bui project and how much per block? You think we have forgotten eeehh.
Nsem huunu ara kwa ara kwa. Did the NPP tell your customers not to buy your blocks? Because it was a create, loot and share company immediately the creating environment was rendered inoperative by being in opposition the ***barred word*** and sharing pipelines couldn’t be fluid any longer. Which block factory in Ghana with all these housing developments will collapse? Akohwefo manbofo
The story is funny. General Mosquito is the contractor that worked on the Assembly Project. He is refusing to disclose the details because I don't understand why someone bought blocks from you and has refused to pay you and you want to hold government responsible for non payment. If I'm selling pepper in the market and a school feeding caterer comes to buy on credit it means government is buying or what? I suspect Aseidu used someone's contract certificate to secure the contract that is why he speaks as if government owes him.
Blocks are sold to people who build houses and doing construction. buy cement and sand and make more blocks and sell to private individuals.
his thing has no shame and respect for both himself and Ghanaians! Only a party like the NDC will accommodate such a character
Truth be told. You were using your businesses to fleece the Ghanaian people. Why should do business with the government if it not an avenue to fleece the people?. Sell to private people.
Mosquito General kindly report it to the commonwealth secretariat that you were once a palm wine tapper and become a teacher and a parliamentarian. You now have two mansion in Calgary in Canada where you family are living now. You a have a seventeen room mansion at Oyarifa,one SSNIT flat that you and your cohorts dubiously took over, another mansion at Agyiriganno, four block factories, one of it was producing blocks for the Bui hydropower, cargo company and many properties. Because of these the government is crippling your businesses so they should investigate.
Where are the NDC ***barred word*** soldiers..