God Will Punish Anyone Who Plays Politics With Komenda Sugar Factory- Nduom
Government has dismissed suggestions that the Komenda Sugar Factory lacks the necessary resources for effective operation and will therefore soon collapse.
Some minority members in parliament have stated that government’s decision to inaugurate without the needed raw materials could only mean that it was done for political gain ahead of elections in November.
But Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has revealed that inasmuch as he prays the new factory succeeds, he is entreating government to inform Ghanaians how it intends to guarantee adequate and cost effective raw material - sugarcane - for this factory.
This was captured in a piece he titled ‘The New Komenda Sugar Factory Must Not Fail’
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We want this new Komenda Sugar Factory to succeed. The failure of the old factory brought prolonged unemployment, early death and desperation. Some of the people who caused the old factory to fail did not consider the fact that real people's lives and livelihoods were at stake.
A lot of them only considered the politics of something put there by an opposing political party. We hope that this time, God will punish anyone who plays politics with the people over this new factory whether they are in government or Edith the opposition.
Politics should be about development and improving the lives of people and not about the pedestrian objective of winning an election.
It is for this reason that I have been asking for several months now, what is being done to guarantee adequate and cost effective raw material - sugarcane - for this factory.
It is why I want to know what measures government has put into place to ensure price competitiveness for this factory's produce. How will this factory compete with imports? How will it survive a future change in government?
Our company has acquired land near the factory and we are ready to grow sugarcane so when and where can we get the right sugarcane to plant? We have invested in equipment to take output from the factory and market it through transformation.
Our investment will come to nought if the factory fails. So when some of us offer suggestions, or criticize what is going wrong, we mean well. We have our self interest at heart and the people's welfare in mind.
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