The running mate of John Mahama in the 2020 presidential polls, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has taken on Nana Akufo-Addo for criticising how former President Mahama's handling of the Komenda Sugar factory.
Nana Akufo-Addo during his tour of the Central Region said former President Mahama betrayed the laws of construction when he built the Komenda Sugar factory without first establishing a sugarcane plantation.
“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,” Nana Akufo-Addo said.
President Akufo-Addo claimed that former President Mahama’s way of doing things was different.
“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," he said describing the manner the former president used.
Reacting to the statement made by the President, Prof Opoku-Agyemang said the President should be more focused on telling the people of the Central Region what he has done for them since he was voted into office in 2016.
“I am hoping he didn’t say so, we can decide not to look at it as an insult, we can look at it as a backhanded compliment and JM, I knew you did many things but I didn’t know you were a magician because I have never in my life seen anybody who can construct a roof without laying the foundation,” the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast said at an NDC gathering in Ho.
“So now we know those who can turn this country around. It is weak destruction, the person who wrote that speech should have put in what exactly the president has done for the people of the Central region, He should have given him a list instead of this destruction that is going nowhere. And he should have pointed out what specifically has been achieved under this government for this country and this was what we needed to have seen,” Professor Opoku-Agyemang stated.