National Democratic Congress (NDC) vice-presidential candidate for the 2020 presidential election Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, has taken President Akufo-Addo to the cleaners.
Prof. Opoku Agyemang speaking in Ho took on the President for saying that Mr. Mahama constructed the ”roof before building the foundation” of the Komenda Sugar factory.
She said the comments were a distraction from the President in accounting for what he has achieved since she was elected as President.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the decision taken by his predecessor, John Dramani Mahama, to build the Komenda Sugar factory, without first establishing a sugarcane plantation, betrays every principle of construction.
“It is like building a house, and say you are going to start from the roof before you have a foundation. How does the house get built? You going to start from the roof, when you haven’t built the foundation?” President Akufo-Addo asked.
According to President Akufo-Addo, “You would think that every industrial activity would begin with, first of all, what you want to do, what you want to produce. Once you identify that, then clearly, your next step has to be what are the inputs, what are the things that you need to be able to feed into your factory, to get to your outputs and you are therefore to be satisfied when you start producing your production, those inputs are there.”
But this, he said, is not John Mahama’s way of doing things, as “he will rather build the roof, once the roof has been built then he will come down and then build the foundation. You know that a house built on that principle will collapse, just as Komenda collapsed.”
Reacting to the comments, the former education minister said she was hoping the President didn’t say so.
”I am hoping he didn’t say that what JDM knows to do, is to build a roof.”
”We can decide not to look at it as an insult. We can look at it as a backhand compliment. JM, I know you do many things, but I never knew you were a magician because I never in my life seen anybody who can construct a roof and not lay the foundation. So now we know those who can turn things around.”
According to her, the President has done nothing for the people of Komenda since he took over office.
”It is a weak distraction. Whoever wrote that that speech should have put in what exactly the President has done for the people of Komenda and the people of Central Region instead of this distraction that is going nowhere. He should have pointed out specifically what has been achieved for this country.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
