The Member of Parliament for the Takoradi Constituency, Kwabena Okyere Darko Mensah, has accused government for abandoning the West African Mills Company (WAMCO) and leaving it near collapse.<\/p>\n
The Cocoa Processing Plant has not been in operation for the past 28 months, making life hard for the workers of the company, a point the MP blamed on government\u2019s \u201cincompetent\u201d management of the firm.<\/p>\n
On the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, a Deputy Minister of Finance, Ato Forson, was quizzed on the future of the company and when it would re-open but he provided no definite answers.<\/p>\n
All the Deputy Finance Minister said was that a\u00a0liquidation process for the plant was underway.<\/p>\n
But Mr. Darko took no solace in Ato Forson\u2019s remarks as he reiterated to Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Duke Mensah Opoku that the current situation \u201csuggests\u00a0that the government is incompetent in managing that affair.\u201d<\/p>\n The MP held that no excuse would hold because \u201cunder Rawlings, the company was working even though there were difficulties in the marriage. Under President Kufuor, the company worked even though there were difficulties\u2026 how come under that under President Mahama, this is happening?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe minister [Ato Forson] is not giving us a time table, he is not giving us certainty on the matter and I believe that is not proper.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI feel that they just don\u2019t care about the workers who work at WAMCO. That is the way I feel not and my buffer plan is to continue to make a lot of noise for government to listen and come to the aid of the workers,\u201d Mr. Darko lamented.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Member of Parliament for the Takoradi Constituency, Kwabena Okyere Darko Mensah, has accused government for abandoning the West African Mills Company (WAMCO) and leaving it near collapse. The Cocoa Processing Plant has not been in operation for the past 28 months, making life hard for the workers of the company, a point the MP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":236768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}