Komenda sugar factory: Mahama has fulfilled CPP's dream - Pratt

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Kokotse 7 years ago

Some of Nkrumahs dreams ended up as a waste of scarce resources which could have being better utilised.

How sustainable is this 1960s "revamped" Kommenda factory in 2017?

Some of Nkrumahs dreams ended up as a waste of scarce resources which could have being better utilised.

How sustainable is this 1960s "revamped" Kommenda factory in 2017?
Gyeeda,Sada,Suba,Woyome, Bus branding 7 years ago

Kwasi Pratt is so unthinking? How could you have a factory and begin employing the jobless without thinking about the raw materials to feed that factory. And look at Kwasi Pratt in support of such a stupid move. Ghana has a p ...
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Kwasi Pratt is so unthinking? How could you have a factory and begin employing the jobless without thinking about the raw materials to feed that factory. And look at Kwasi Pratt in support of such a stupid move. Ghana has a proble to be having people like Kwasi Pratt, Ayarega and Akua Donkor doing the bid of the most stupid president on earth, John Mahama.
Gentleman 7 years ago

Nincompoop. Sycophant. Mad man.

Nincompoop. Sycophant. Mad man.
OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33)... DEAD GOAT MAHAMA IS ON HIS WAY OUT. EVERY GHANAIAN IS AWARE OF THIS. IF YOU SEE MAHAMA'S HEAD ON THE BUS, LET IT REMIND YOU OF HIS INEPTNESS. HOW COULD HE SPEND $1MILLION ON THAT FOOLI ...
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Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33)... DEAD GOAT MAHAMA IS ON HIS WAY OUT. EVERY GHANAIAN IS AWARE OF THIS. IF YOU SEE MAHAMA'S HEAD ON THE BUS, LET IT REMIND YOU OF HIS INEPTNESS. HOW COULD HE SPEND $1MILLION ON THAT FOOLISH DEED WHILST HOSPITALS LACK BEDS AND OUR COCOA FARMERS WHO GIVE US THE DOLLARS THROUGH THEIR SWEAT CAN'T EVEN AFFORD ONE PARACEUTAMOL TABLET?? IF YOU SEE MAHAMA'S HEAD ON THE BUS AND YOU ARE STARVING, HAVING LOST YOUR JOB, YOU ARE IN DARKNESS, DUMSOR DESTROYING YOUR BUSINESS, YOUR PARENTS CANT AFFORD YOUR SCHOOL FEES, YOUR BUSINESS HAS COLLAPSED, NHIS CAN'T HELP YOU, YOU ARE AN UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE, THEN, PREPARE YOUR THUMB AGAINST MAHAMA IN 2016 . SEE MAHAMA'S HEAD ON THE BUS AS A DISPLAY OF INCOMPETENCE, THIEVERY AND STUPIDITY!!!!!----------NPP MUST UNITE AND TAKE BACK THE COUNTRY. WE HAVE GIVEN NDC ENOUGH TIME, WE TALKING ABOUT MORE THAN HALF OF OUR POST-INDEPENDENT YEARS ( 26 YEARS) AND ALL WE SEE IS THEIR USUAL BULLSHIT AND NONSENSE. WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS!! WE NEED LIFE!!!
Albert Armaah 7 years ago

stupid like ur father eh?

stupid like ur father eh?
Obed Adore 7 years ago

Sugar cane from Asutuare project will help feed the Komenda Sugar Plant.. Wouldn't it?
Na ask wey I dey ask oo, my friends

Sugar cane from Asutuare project will help feed the Komenda Sugar Plant.. Wouldn't it?
Na ask wey I dey ask oo, my friends
Saint Ghfuo: MEDIOCRITY STINKS! 7 years ago

MORE PPL SUCK BOOZE IN GH THAN THEY EAT SUGAR SO THE BOOZE MAKERS WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE REVENUE ON HAND TO BUY SUGARCANE AT PREMIUM PRICES. CAN WE SAY THE SAME FOR THE SUGAR FACTORY? NO...THIS IS WHY MAHAMA SHOULD HAVE BUILT ...
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MORE PPL SUCK BOOZE IN GH THAN THEY EAT SUGAR SO THE BOOZE MAKERS WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE REVENUE ON HAND TO BUY SUGARCANE AT PREMIUM PRICES. CAN WE SAY THE SAME FOR THE SUGAR FACTORY? NO...THIS IS WHY MAHAMA SHOULD HAVE BUILT HIS FOUNDATION/PROVIDED INTEREST FREE LOANS/GRANTS TO YOUTHS TO CULTIVATE SUGAR PLANTATIONS. I WOULD RATHER HAVE MORE SUGAR CANE THAN HAVE A DEFICIT OF SUGARCANE. DEMAND N SUPPLY...EBEI!!!!!
Honesty - the best policy! 7 years ago

Opinions they say are like noses and everybody has one. Worse condemnations greeted Osagyefos' Akosombo project on its inception. Yet... Ghanaians including champion critis like Dr. Busia had to eat their humble pie later. Th ...
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Opinions they say are like noses and everybody has one. Worse condemnations greeted Osagyefos' Akosombo project on its inception. Yet... Ghanaians including champion critis like Dr. Busia had to eat their humble pie later. This is what those who have foresight have to suffer from fools. The airplane, automobile, television, computer were once considered a pipe-dream and a wayward investment. Yet...
ABU 7 years ago

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY 'WHAT ARE WE GOING TO FEED THE FACTORY? SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO STOP THIS POLITICS OF VOODOOISM.WHY? DO YOU WANT TO FLOOD THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WITH SUGARCANE BEFORE YOU BUILD A FACTORY FOR SUGAR? SOMETHING MUST ...
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY 'WHAT ARE WE GOING TO FEED THE FACTORY? SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO STOP THIS POLITICS OF VOODOOISM.WHY? DO YOU WANT TO FLOOD THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WITH SUGARCANE BEFORE YOU BUILD A FACTORY FOR SUGAR? SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG WITH YOU. HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR SUGARCANE TO GROW? IF YOU DONT THINK PLEASE ALLOW THE THINKERS TALK.

OUR PRESIDENT HAS DONE GREAT IN THIS REGARD. WELL DONE MR PRESIDENT!!!
Ghanaian, NY 7 years ago

Partisan politics has made some people so dumb that they don't find time to reason before they criticize.

Partisan politics has made some people so dumb that they don't find time to reason before they criticize.
v.bowe 7 years ago

So you think it's right to commission a factory and two days later close it down for mentainance lasting six months? what are we doing to our selves as a people?

So you think it's right to commission a factory and two days later close it down for mentainance lasting six months? what are we doing to our selves as a people?
Albert Armaah 7 years ago

Ghana's problem is people like u who see nothing good in other people

Ghana's problem is people like u who see nothing good in other people
Adu 7 years ago

You made a black statement without explaining your self. At such question would have been raised by any moron like you and some feasibility would have gone into it before.
I would rather you talk about prudent Management.

You made a black statement without explaining your self. At such question would have been raised by any moron like you and some feasibility would have gone into it before.
I would rather you talk about prudent Management.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 7 years ago

THOSE FAKE NKRUMAIST KWESI PRAAT AND NDC ARE JUST USING NKRUMAs NAME TO LOOT US, JJ HAS SAID THE TRUTH THAT NOTHING RESEMBLES NKRUMAH IN THEM

THOSE FAKE NKRUMAIST KWESI PRAAT AND NDC ARE JUST USING NKRUMAs NAME TO LOOT US, JJ HAS SAID THE TRUTH THAT NOTHING RESEMBLES NKRUMAH IN THEM
Constable Joy 7 years ago

THE MOTOR-WAY,TEMA HARBOUR/TOWNSHIP,JOB 600 etc STILL KEEP GHANA MOVING.IF NOT BECAUSE OF PAID AGENTS GHANA SHOULD HAVE BEEN SELF SUFFICIENT TODAY.

THE MOTOR-WAY,TEMA HARBOUR/TOWNSHIP,JOB 600 etc STILL KEEP GHANA MOVING.IF NOT BECAUSE OF PAID AGENTS GHANA SHOULD HAVE BEEN SELF SUFFICIENT TODAY.
DR TRUTH 7 years ago

WHILE THE LIKES OF UK, USA, CHINA, INDIA ARE ENACTING LAWS TO CUT SUGAR CONSUMPTION, PRESIDENT MAHAMA RENOVATES AN ALREADY EXISTING SUGAR FACTORY AND DIMWITS LIKE KWESI PRATT ARE CLAPPING FOR MAHAMA'S ENCOURAGEMENT OF UNHEALT ...
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WHILE THE LIKES OF UK, USA, CHINA, INDIA ARE ENACTING LAWS TO CUT SUGAR CONSUMPTION, PRESIDENT MAHAMA RENOVATES AN ALREADY EXISTING SUGAR FACTORY AND DIMWITS LIKE KWESI PRATT ARE CLAPPING FOR MAHAMA'S ENCOURAGEMENT OF UNHEALTHY EATING HABIT WHICH CAUSES DIABETES
ABU 7 years ago

RENOVATING SO WHAT? WHY SHOULDNT HE CLAPP? AND WHO SAYS SUGAR IS THE CAUSE OF DIABETES? GO AND LEARN! SEEK KNOWLEDGE AND ALLOW OUR PRESIDENT TO WORK.

RENOVATING SO WHAT? WHY SHOULDNT HE CLAPP? AND WHO SAYS SUGAR IS THE CAUSE OF DIABETES? GO AND LEARN! SEEK KNOWLEDGE AND ALLOW OUR PRESIDENT TO WORK.
Kwesi Tz 7 years ago

What do you want Kwesi Pratt to do then?Weep or Cry?Do you know what the refurbished Komenda Sugar factory do to Ghanaians youth?

It will create jobs for 7,3oo youth in the country.Instead of you heaping praise on the Pres ...
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What do you want Kwesi Pratt to do then?Weep or Cry?Do you know what the refurbished Komenda Sugar factory do to Ghanaians youth?

It will create jobs for 7,3oo youth in the country.Instead of you heaping praise on the President for bringing the factory back to life,you are here talking NONSENSE!
NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 7 years ago

Kokotse, Kwame Nkrumah did amazingly really well for this nation. What this nation is suffering from is a culture of mismanagement. We can't manage even our own shit! Sorry for my language. This nation is in the grips of the ...
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Kokotse, Kwame Nkrumah did amazingly really well for this nation. What this nation is suffering from is a culture of mismanagement. We can't manage even our own shit! Sorry for my language. This nation is in the grips of the jaw of mismanagement and that is our bane.

Ghana used to have 2 fully functional sugar factories in Komenda (Central Region) and Asutsuare (Greater Accra Region) but thanks to our own mismanagement, by the turn of the mid 80s we succeeded in collapsing them.

What do you call the "scare resource" that the Nkrumah wasted and to what use would you have put those "scare resources" that would have made Ghana a better place today?

Nkrumah did his best. He had the well-being of this nation at heart. He had the best of intents for Ghana but his detractors always want to twist history and portray Nkrumah as the problem but we all know better, unless you have no idea what Osagyefo put in place for this great nation that keeps struggling.

Find out for yourself,how much of our foreign exchange is spent on importing sugar into this country and ask yourself if it is worth trying to build our own sugar factory, manage it well produce, and produce our own sugar. Management is the bane of this country but if we have the competitive advantage in producing something we must do our best to harness those opportunities. If we don't do that we will forever keep struggling.

Our politicians are more concern about feathering their own nests than moving this nation forward and in the end, the vast majority of our people end up being the real victims. Even Rawlings the apostle of "Probity and Accountability" is corrupt. I don't even want to mentioned Kufour and the rest.
DR TRUTH 7 years ago

Brij Mohan Singh
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Brij Mohan Singh
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Asst. Cane Manager Development at Seftech India Pvt Ltd for Komenda Sugar Factory Ghana
Lucknow Area, IndiaFood & Beverag
Albert Armaah 7 years ago

Akosombo dam n Tema motorway r still relevant

Akosombo dam n Tema motorway r still relevant
Amenyaglo 7 years ago

Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom should have taken advantage of this and establish a sugarcane plantation by now instead of buying a bank in the US. A plantation in his own constituency would have created more jobs for his constituents. I ...
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Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom should have taken advantage of this and establish a sugarcane plantation by now instead of buying a bank in the US. A plantation in his own constituency would have created more jobs for his constituents. It is not late for him now that the rains have set in.
Masa 7 years ago

Your brain is dead.Govt regulate government don't get involved in factories.Ancient concept even the soviet has abundon what you think is an achievement.

Your brain is dead.Govt regulate government don't get involved in factories.Ancient concept even the soviet has abundon what you think is an achievement.
YAA-YAA 7 years ago

When it's business and serious governance issues please Kwasi Pratt is seriously demented..... Stark illiterate in business apart from cheap propaganda

When it's business and serious governance issues please Kwasi Pratt is seriously demented..... Stark illiterate in business apart from cheap propaganda
Teviefe Chief 7 years ago

The sugar cane farms should have been up and being harvested six months ago. It is now that Omane Boamah is trying to propagandize the availability of raw materials saying the farmers would be paid GHS60/ton of their produce. ...
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The sugar cane farms should have been up and being harvested six months ago. It is now that Omane Boamah is trying to propagandize the availability of raw materials saying the farmers would be paid GHS60/ton of their produce. The factory will grind to a halt in about three months just like Juapong Textiles, Pawlugu Tomato Factory and Kumasi Shoe Factory are alll suffering. Poor planning .... If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Political propaganda results in failure always. MARK MY WORDS.
ABU 7 years ago

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY WHERE WILL SUGARCANE COME FROM AS IF WE ARE LIVING IN THE MOON!? CANT WE GROW SUGARCANE? HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO GROW SUGARCANE? SEE STOP THAT SHALLOW THINKING.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY WHERE WILL SUGARCANE COME FROM AS IF WE ARE LIVING IN THE MOON!? CANT WE GROW SUGARCANE? HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO GROW SUGARCANE? SEE STOP THAT SHALLOW THINKING.
Concerned 7 years ago

Chinese banks, factories, schools and most economic activity is controlled by government and they have the second largest economy in the world. The word is efficiency. It doesn't matter who it is as long as you run the entity ...
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Chinese banks, factories, schools and most economic activity is controlled by government and they have the second largest economy in the world. The word is efficiency. It doesn't matter who it is as long as you run the entity well.In our own country government run organisations like nsawom cannery andVRA were all effective until rawshit came to mess it up
YAA-YAA 7 years ago

Don't ever use Kwasi Pratt when we are discussing viable business enterprise at all oooooooohhhhhh because he knows next to nothing.... Nothing... Nothing.... All he does is propaganda politics...... No common sense economy a ...
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Don't ever use Kwasi Pratt when we are discussing viable business enterprise at all oooooooohhhhhh because he knows next to nothing.... Nothing... Nothing.... All he does is propaganda politics...... No common sense economy and fiscal discipline to build Ghana....
SCHEMER 7 years ago

He has fulfilled your personal dream Kwesi Pratt. Who doesn't know you are Benjamin in Joseph's coat? CPP is on your lips but your heart and face is NDC. The beauty of democracy is the right of association but don't try to fo ...
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He has fulfilled your personal dream Kwesi Pratt. Who doesn't know you are Benjamin in Joseph's coat? CPP is on your lips but your heart and face is NDC. The beauty of democracy is the right of association but don't try to fool us that you have CPP at heart.
YAA-YAA 7 years ago

Ghanaians are in trouble paaaaaaaaaa..... Ndc government is just wasting money.... Precious money paaaaaaaaaa..... Ndc will put square pegs in round when it comes to MANAGEMENT OF KOMENDA..... JUST LIKE ALLOTEY JACOBS IS IN T ...
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Ghanaians are in trouble paaaaaaaaaa..... Ndc government is just wasting money.... Precious money paaaaaaaaaa..... Ndc will put square pegs in round when it comes to MANAGEMENT OF KOMENDA..... JUST LIKE ALLOTEY JACOBS IS IN THE USA TO SPEAK FOR GHANA ON PETROLEUM..... hahahaaaa ide biiiiiiii Keke thieves in government.......
Abu Boah 7 years ago

I am more than persuaded that the NPP's battle cry is vacuous and dry. It sounds pleasing only to the ears of Akufo-Addo and his benighted buffs, not the segment of Ghanaians who appreciate what the government is doing. And t ...
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I am more than persuaded that the NPP's battle cry is vacuous and dry. It sounds pleasing only to the ears of Akufo-Addo and his benighted buffs, not the segment of Ghanaians who appreciate what the government is doing. And they are in the majority to prove their worth at Election 2016
OFOSUAA 7 years ago

LETS WAIT AND SEE HOW ELECTRICITY TARIFFS WILL NOT DEAL WTH THIS USELESS CLUELESS NDC WHICH IS THIEVING ON TOP......AMERI DEAL TO SUPPLY POWER IS TOO EXPENSIVE FOR GHANA TO RUN ANY BUSINESS BUT NDC REFUSES TO SEE TRUTH...

LETS WAIT AND SEE HOW ELECTRICITY TARIFFS WILL NOT DEAL WTH THIS USELESS CLUELESS NDC WHICH IS THIEVING ON TOP......AMERI DEAL TO SUPPLY POWER IS TOO EXPENSIVE FOR GHANA TO RUN ANY BUSINESS BUT NDC REFUSES TO SEE TRUTH...
Aj 7 years ago

Schemer forget about kwesi pratt.he the most tribalistic person i have ever seen in my life,how on earth can a party p-ndc/ndc spent 29 years in political power,systematically close down 250 factories including komanda sugar ...
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Schemer forget about kwesi pratt.he the most tribalistic person i have ever seen in my life,how on earth can a party p-ndc/ndc spent 29 years in political power,systematically close down 250 factories including komanda sugar fact.,borrow 99.8 billion cedis with 4billion $ US oil money more then any political party in ghana history.so how do you clap for thieve who keep rubbing your stuffs and got tired be'cos he/she has been expose then come back with your stolen shirt and said pls you can have your stuff back then do i have to jubilate hell big No.
Abu Boah 7 years ago

Providing infrastructure comes with a huge price, though, which immediately manifests in the cost of living. And which the NPP rogue politicians are highlighting as the government's failure. Their tunnel-vision approach to po ...
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Providing infrastructure comes with a huge price, though, which immediately manifests in the cost of living. And which the NPP rogue politicians are highlighting as the government's failure. Their tunnel-vision approach to politics won't let them see anything good in a party and government that they regard as their nemesis. But merely wishing that government out of the way won't pave the way for them to be in power
Abu Boah 7 years ago

we admit that the Mahama-led administration has yet to have firm grips on the economy to turn it around; many other sectors of national life are yet to be controlled and problems tackled to our satisfaction. We must admit tha ...
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we admit that the Mahama-led administration has yet to have firm grips on the economy to turn it around; many other sectors of national life are yet to be controlled and problems tackled to our satisfaction. We must admit that the going has been tough; but the consolation is that the government hasn't been sleeping. That is why it is asking for its tenure to be renewed at Election 2016. I support it!!
YAA-YAA 7 years ago

Right from attamills and woyome ... To JOHNMAHAMA and SADA GYEEDA SUBAH ETC..... Ndc thieves are robbing Ghana big time....... They are very strange people who only think of winning power and misgorvening Ghanaians.......

Right from attamills and woyome ... To JOHNMAHAMA and SADA GYEEDA SUBAH ETC..... Ndc thieves are robbing Ghana big time....... They are very strange people who only think of winning power and misgorvening Ghanaians.......
Abu Boah 7 years ago

IX. The new Board and Management of the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) have comprehensively addressed the concerns raised in the 2013 audit report regarding the use of resources. The financial accounts of SA ...
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IX. The new Board and Management of the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) have comprehensively addressed the concerns raised in the 2013 audit report regarding the use of resources. The financial accounts of SADA from 2012 to date have been audited, and the 2014 accounts will be published as part of SADA’s annual report.
TEE 7 years ago

MAHAMA THE WORST EVER THIEF GHANA HAS EXPERIENCED

MAHAMA THE WORST EVER THIEF GHANA HAS EXPERIENCED
Akakpo 7 years ago

see you criminals. look at ur comments this is a common sense Pratt has said it all

see you criminals. look at ur comments this is a common sense Pratt has said it all
NANA KOFI 7 years ago

Shut UP Mr Ass Kisser Pratt !

Shut UP Mr Ass Kisser Pratt !
Constable Joy 7 years ago

IN WHAT CAPACITY AND IN WHICH VILLAGE?

IN WHAT CAPACITY AND IN WHICH VILLAGE?
MINGLE 7 years ago

DOES THIS REFLECT ON WHAT HE SAYS AFTER HE IS ON HIS PILLOW? I WONDER HIS INTELLIGENCE SOMETIMES

DOES THIS REFLECT ON WHAT HE SAYS AFTER HE IS ON HIS PILLOW? I WONDER HIS INTELLIGENCE SOMETIMES
YAA-YAA 7 years ago

Kwasi Pratt is empty please..

Kwasi Pratt is empty please..
Robert Nandode 7 years ago

KP is a bankrupt ex socialist.

Factory without sugarcane?

Kwesi, think, think and think. No condition is permanent . You are making yourself a nuisance.
Mama Pratt, tell your husband to shut up.

KP is a bankrupt ex socialist.

Factory without sugarcane?

Kwesi, think, think and think. No condition is permanent . You are making yourself a nuisance.
Mama Pratt, tell your husband to shut up.
apuuuu 7 years ago

Kwesi Pratt is 2 face apuuuu

Kwesi Pratt is 2 face apuuuu
ROZZY 7 years ago

Please stop been hypocritic.

Please stop been hypocritic.
Clearance seedorf 7 years ago

Kwesi Pratt is not a staunch member of CPP. He support NDC. Foolish stomach politician, your time will end very soon.

Kwesi Pratt is not a staunch member of CPP. He support NDC. Foolish stomach politician, your time will end very soon.
Abu Boah 7 years ago

As the leader of our country President Mahama must be protected and respected by all Ghanaians home and abroad. The problem is that we think there is a way Presidents should behave and do things. I know there is a public rela ...
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As the leader of our country President Mahama must be protected and respected by all Ghanaians home and abroad. The problem is that we think there is a way Presidents should behave and do things. I know there is a public relations element to be looked into. But I think a President should bring his or her own personality out. They are human after all. It is sad that the character of Mahama is being taken advantage of especially by his enemies and those in opposition. We have in him a leader who has not forgotten his humble back ground.
Mother Ghana 7 years ago

Mr.Pratt we should have planted or cultivated the sugar cane at least during the construction of the factory.
Lets hope it does not become a white elephant.
Importing the sugar cane will make our product more expensive.

Mr.Pratt we should have planted or cultivated the sugar cane at least during the construction of the factory.
Lets hope it does not become a white elephant.
Importing the sugar cane will make our product more expensive.
asokwa 7 years ago

The entire European countries, especially Switzerland produces the best world chocolates, ask yourself where did they get the cocoa to produce the finest chocolate from. Didi they grow cocoa first before producing chocolate o ...
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The entire European countries, especially Switzerland produces the best world chocolates, ask yourself where did they get the cocoa to produce the finest chocolate from. Didi they grow cocoa first before producing chocolate or do they import from somewhere in the tropical countries?. If, even Ghana has built sugar factory and hasn`t grow sugar cane, can´t we import sugar cane from somewhere?
JC 7 years ago

It is not the business of Governments to establish production units. This will lead to inefficiency - subsidies, laziness, favouritism, nepotism,fraud stealing - and then eventual collapse. We have seen it before in the Nkrum ...
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It is not the business of Governments to establish production units. This will lead to inefficiency - subsidies, laziness, favouritism, nepotism,fraud stealing - and then eventual collapse. We have seen it before in the Nkrumah regime.
truth 7 years ago

Education & fishing mostly dominate in Central Region. Sadly muddy houses dominates in that Region.

Education & fishing mostly dominate in Central Region. Sadly muddy houses dominates in that Region.
JEKMo 7 years ago

The guy is doing the job

The guy is doing the job
Kani 7 years ago

Factory still not in operation after inauguration, why? I learnt it will be in operation for six months and shut for six months for maintenance, does it make sense? Big No! These guys are really making fun of Ghanaians, and i ...
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Factory still not in operation after inauguration, why? I learnt it will be in operation for six months and shut for six months for maintenance, does it make sense? Big No! These guys are really making fun of Ghanaians, and it beats my imagination to know that a new or revived plant is still not ready but most fools will fall for the bait. Before they come to their senses it would be too late and they will start the process of complaining all over again for another four solid yrs. when are Ghanaians going to thrive for excellence ...?
Abu Boah 7 years ago

The factory, which is expected to start operations later in the year, is seeking well-meaning intelligent, competent, self-motivated and responsible individuals to fill the vacancies. Applications are expected from suitable c ...
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The factory, which is expected to start operations later in the year, is seeking well-meaning intelligent, competent, self-motivated and responsible individuals to fill the vacancies. Applications are expected from suitable candidates in the field of agro-food processing as well as food technology industry for several positions.
kwame Amponsah 7 years ago

Oh kwesi pratt the 250k USD that bought you and your family 15 years ago is still working. How cheap can you be. It is because of people like you that Ghana has sunk sooo so deep. How can this white elephant be fulfilment of ...
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Oh kwesi pratt the 250k USD that bought you and your family 15 years ago is still working. How cheap can you be. It is because of people like you that Ghana has sunk sooo so deep. How can this white elephant be fulfilment of Nkrumah's dream. Wake up you are cheaper than cheap!
Kofi T/N 7 years ago

Which dream Akwasi?

Which dream Akwasi?
SUBIN MANOTRU 7 years ago

GOD RICHLY BLESS KWESI PRATT FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH. THE KOMENDA SUGAR FACTORY IS BACK TO LIFE WHETHER THE ENEMIES OF PROGRESS LIKE IT OR NOT.

GOD RICHLY BLESS KWESI PRATT FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH. THE KOMENDA SUGAR FACTORY IS BACK TO LIFE WHETHER THE ENEMIES OF PROGRESS LIKE IT OR NOT.
GHANA 7 years ago

ALLOTEY JACOBS WAS ON ECG BOARD FOR WHAT...?..... Political cronyism by ndc has destroyed Ghana.... ALLOTEY again on GNPC BOARD for what?.... Oooohhhh Ghana.....

ALLOTEY JACOBS WAS ON ECG BOARD FOR WHAT...?..... Political cronyism by ndc has destroyed Ghana.... ALLOTEY again on GNPC BOARD for what?.... Oooohhhh Ghana.....
A friend 7 years ago

This fool thinks we are all PRATTS!!!

This fool thinks we are all PRATTS!!!
GHANA 7 years ago

Ghana intellectuals where are you.....? Kwasi Pratt is ignorant and sycophantic and stomach politician....

Ghana intellectuals where are you.....? Kwasi Pratt is ignorant and sycophantic and stomach politician....
Sid 7 years ago

When is the factory going to start operating?after he voted to office or are equipment going to on 20million a month electricity or it operate on word of command .industries are already down or operating on n off due to energ ...
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When is the factory going to start operating?after he voted to office or are equipment going to on 20million a month electricity or it operate on word of command .industries are already down or operating on n off due to energy n unbearable but u fooling yourself n deceiving the venerable by commissioning a "FAcTOry Who do think u fooling?ur just going tut criminals there steal
Sid 7 years ago

U don't name unborn baby n say he found to become a scientist or a lawyer the has even raw materials no certain energy to power it but u making empty noise u commission industry in progress or with certainly damn

U don't name unborn baby n say he found to become a scientist or a lawyer the has even raw materials no certain energy to power it but u making empty noise u commission industry in progress or with certainly damn
Kwasi.London 7 years ago

Fool ,where are the raw materials

Fool ,where are the raw materials
NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 7 years ago

So what is the essence of a government? Is a government supposed to make the lives of its citizens better, create jobs, create the conducive environment for jobs, and businesses to strive, maintain the peace and unite the peo ...
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So what is the essence of a government? Is a government supposed to make the lives of its citizens better, create jobs, create the conducive environment for jobs, and businesses to strive, maintain the peace and unite the people?

Yes, it's good this sugar factory is it place. Great! We used to have two sugar factories in Komenda (Central Region) Asutsuare (Greater Accra region) and due to our mismanagement, those factories collapsed and I still fear that the same fate will befall this state own factory too. That is a sad reality waiting to happen. We are stupid fools when it comes to managing anything.

Already, the factory has started on the wrong footing by deciding to pay 50 Ghana cedis per tonne of sugarcane. How viable and profitable is this going to be to entice farmers to take to sugarcane farming to sustain the operations of the factory or we are going to import sugarcane too, just as we import everything under this sun?

Instead of pegging sugarcane supplied to the factor at 50 Ghana cedis per tonne, management of the factory should think strategically and realise that if they make a good offer to farmers now, that will serve as an incentive too people to venture into the sugar farming business,
providing the factory a sustainable base of raw material supply that will eventually lead to a supply glut that will outstrip demand and push the price of sugarcane down to the benefit of the factory.

The ball is in the court of those entrusted to manage this factory. They will either fail or succeed but 95% of the time our state-managed institutions and firms have failed to performance. You will see the big guys driving in big cars and spending the tax payer's money like drunken sailors.

We are a nation of Cheats, Stupid fools, and Morons. If we had managed well even 20% of what Kwame Nkrumah put in place, Ghana would have been a far better place than even South Korea or China. Today, we cannot even compare ourselves with Vietnam. That is how much Ghana has retrogressed. We have the brains, we have the raw resources and yet still we cannot manage even shit and we have dumbass know-nothings like Kweku Baako, Kwesi Pratt, Afred Ogbame, Gabby Ochere Darko, Ametor Kwame, Fred Agbenyo, all the fucking bootlickers, and the yes-men and women always singing praises of one government or the other, all for their own parochial interest. Am sick of the nonsense and the rot this country finds itself in.
wise man 7 years ago

Hmm...only in Ghana that a common factory like this sugar factory factory is receiving praise.Better factories are built else where yet no funfair

Hmm...only in Ghana that a common factory like this sugar factory factory is receiving praise.Better factories are built else where yet no funfair
John Kool 7 years ago

Kwesi, you seem to be living in a different world. Switch on your reasoning faculty.This is another NDC poor taste propaganda. Why wait for nearly eight years to launch or revive the Komenda sugar factory,and when is producti ...
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Kwesi, you seem to be living in a different world. Switch on your reasoning faculty.This is another NDC poor taste propaganda. Why wait for nearly eight years to launch or revive the Komenda sugar factory,and when is production at the factory going to start.
You see what money from this government has done to Kwesi Pratt. The man Kwesi has abandoned his ability to think.
Abu Boah 7 years ago

The Export and Import (EXIM) Bank of India is providing $35 million while the Government of Ghana is providing the counterpart funding of $1.5 million towards the establishment of the $36.5 million Komenda Sugar Factory. The ...
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The Export and Import (EXIM) Bank of India is providing $35 million while the Government of Ghana is providing the counterpart funding of $1.5 million towards the establishment of the $36.5 million Komenda Sugar Factory. The sugar factory, on completion, would provide 1,300 direct jobs to Ghanaians, and over 5,000 auxiliary jobs would also be provided under the project.
K Mensah 7 years ago

This foolish stomach journalist should not waste our ears with his blind support of Mahama the thief.

This foolish stomach journalist should not waste our ears with his blind support of Mahama the thief.
Abu Boah 7 years ago

The sugar factory, on completion, would provide 1,300 direct jobs to Ghanaians, and over 5,000 auxiliary jobs would also be provided under the project.We wait to see how those in other parts of Ghana will react to him when he ...
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The sugar factory, on completion, would provide 1,300 direct jobs to Ghanaians, and over 5,000 auxiliary jobs would also be provided under the project.We wait to see how those in other parts of Ghana will react to him when he visits their communities to commiserate with them. A true leader walks every step of the way with the people.
DANKWA USA. 7 years ago

IF NPP CRIMINALS LEAD BY AKUFO COCAINE,,ADDICT,, HAVE STOLEN 4 BILLION DOLLARS FOR KVIP, IN THEIR WANTED 8 YEARS IN GOVERNMENT, GHANA WOULD HAVE MOVE FAR THAN WHERE WE ARE NOW.

IF NPP CRIMINALS LEAD BY AKUFO COCAINE,,ADDICT,, HAVE STOLEN 4 BILLION DOLLARS FOR KVIP, IN THEIR WANTED 8 YEARS IN GOVERNMENT, GHANA WOULD HAVE MOVE FAR THAN WHERE WE ARE NOW.
Ghana. 7 years ago

Hmmmm miles began with one step
. Jdm God be with you.

Hmmmm miles began with one step
. Jdm God be with you.
Mr Bond 7 years ago

Folks,stop drinks the soup and it is not yet palatable.Why because the factory belongs to India investor.Have folks forgot it is PPP?Just ask thief Mahama how much he contributed towards the construction of the factory.Those ...
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Folks,stop drinks the soup and it is not yet palatable.Why because the factory belongs to India investor.Have folks forgot it is PPP?Just ask thief Mahama how much he contributed towards the construction of the factory.Those praising Mahama are sick the company cost $35 million but NDC thiefs said it cost $336 million.
Kwasi USA 7 years ago

STUPID kwasi Pratt is fighting for his stomach.open up factory without raw materials is joke.where is the sugarcane for the suger .kwasi pratti u ar most STUPID person i have ever known

STUPID kwasi Pratt is fighting for his stomach.open up factory without raw materials is joke.where is the sugarcane for the suger .kwasi pratti u ar most STUPID person i have ever known
Nii AKwei 7 years ago

I will tell Prez Mahama, take the 7000 jobs and shove it up your A*S.

I will tell Prez Mahama, take the 7000 jobs and shove it up your A*S.
Mills. 7 years ago

This guy is one of the reason why NDC have taken Ghanaians for fools. Because 1- He sees every bad thing that NDC does as good and praise them all because of his stomach. 2-He condemns inocent people by fabricating false stor ...
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This guy is one of the reason why NDC have taken Ghanaians for fools. Because 1- He sees every bad thing that NDC does as good and praise them all because of his stomach. 2-He condemns inocent people by fabricating false stories about them all because of his stomach. 3- He is selfish and an enemy to Ghana period.
OKOROMANSA 7 years ago

A SUGAR FACTORY WITHOUT A SUGAR CAN FARM TO FEED THE FACTORY SOUNDS FUNNY. WE WILL SEE HOW LONG THAT FACTORY WOULD LAST AND HOW MUCH DOLLARS IT WOULD GENERATE. STUPID KWASI PRATT IS TALKING AGAIN. DUMSOR WILL HIT THE FACTORY ...
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A SUGAR FACTORY WITHOUT A SUGAR CAN FARM TO FEED THE FACTORY SOUNDS FUNNY. WE WILL SEE HOW LONG THAT FACTORY WOULD LAST AND HOW MUCH DOLLARS IT WOULD GENERATE. STUPID KWASI PRATT IS TALKING AGAIN. DUMSOR WILL HIT THE FACTORY ON A WEEKLY BASIS AND PRATT WOULD THEN REMIND MAHAMA THAT THE CPP FACTORY IS NOT WORKING. PRATT IS SO DAFT!
Ice cool 7 years ago

Stupid boy think about how to pay your lights bills.

Stupid boy think about how to pay your lights bills.
cb 7 years ago

Maybe this will also help great jobs for tea vendors.

Maybe this will also help great jobs for tea vendors.
GH 7 years ago

Mr Kwesi Bratt, err .. err .. Pratt, since you are so knowledgeable about this project, could you help the Mahama administration out by giving your fellow Ghanaians a breakdown of where the 7000 jobs are coming from? From per ...
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Mr Kwesi Bratt, err .. err .. Pratt, since you are so knowledgeable about this project, could you help the Mahama administration out by giving your fellow Ghanaians a breakdown of where the 7000 jobs are coming from? From personal experience in the manufacturing industry, unless the government intends to use muscle power to squeeze the juice out of the canes,the maximum number of people required to run the factory would not exceed 100! That leaves 6900 jobs that you'd agree must mostly come from growers, who must use cutlasses and hoes to farm the canes! Brilliant! Do you think we need to have commercial mechanized sugarcane plantations to be able to run the factory to capacity? i'd appreciate your thoughts on the numbers, please!
Biko 7 years ago

Who does not know that you are already in power. NDC stooge.

Who does not know that you are already in power. NDC stooge.
Kwame 7 years ago

Its a crime to produce sugar in Ghana but Ghanaians eat sugar. Most of the time NPP members make it look like it is a crime for a person who suffer from all the elements of nature to put a shed over his head. The matter is no ...
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Its a crime to produce sugar in Ghana but Ghanaians eat sugar. Most of the time NPP members make it look like it is a crime for a person who suffer from all the elements of nature to put a shed over his head. The matter is not about the shed but that NPP members are of the view that others can not feel that they are being beaten by elements of nature unless they are told by NPP. It looks like the matter of trained mother if you delivered in a certain country, but a woman who did not delivered her baby there is not a trained mother.
It is foolish for a person who sees another walking to conceive the erroneous belief that the other though walking can not locomotion.
Penisilyn 7 years ago

So what? Ugly noisy criminal.

So what? Ugly noisy criminal.
kofi (USA) 7 years ago

KWESI GYAN SHUT UP - CHAMELEON

KWESI GYAN SHUT UP - CHAMELEON
Kokuvi Da Togolese 7 years ago

Is Mr. Seboglass aware the damn factory has been closed after the pomp and pageantry?

Is Mr. Seboglass aware the damn factory has been closed after the pomp and pageantry?
Aaaron 7 years ago

Hypocrite , you will die of lies .Fire burn you .

Hypocrite , you will die of lies .Fire burn you .
Yapo 7 years ago

When you hear Kwesi singing the government's swan song, then you should know he has been refreshed!

When you hear Kwesi singing the government's swan song, then you should know he has been refreshed!
Felix 7 years ago

Kwasi Pratt, it was a propaganda message. Stop supporting Mahama

Kwasi Pratt, it was a propaganda message. Stop supporting Mahama
Gyeeda, Sada, Suba,Bus Branding Woyom 7 years ago

Very soon, Kwasi Pratt will vomit all the money paid to him by john Mahama and he will go straight to jail with his pay master. How could we have a factory, hire workers and not even have plans to supply raw materials to feed ...
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Very soon, Kwasi Pratt will vomit all the money paid to him by john Mahama and he will go straight to jail with his pay master. How could we have a factory, hire workers and not even have plans to supply raw materials to feed the factory? And this foolish idiot says it is all well and good.
akontae 7 years ago

True talk

True talk
SE MANKOKA 7 years ago

If Politicians would see national assets as the property of the State and not with Party lenses then it should achieve the desired goals as you are saying. Let us hope that another party in power would not let it collapse to ...
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If Politicians would see national assets as the property of the State and not with Party lenses then it should achieve the desired goals as you are saying. Let us hope that another party in power would not let it collapse to prove that it was a wrong thing done in the first place just as we seen the demise of Presidential initiatives that was a source of employment creation and social interventions that are at the verge of collapse.
TEE 7 years ago

NATANI PEPENI FRAFRA MAHAMA CALLING GHANAIANS NAMES HAHAHAHAHAH APUUUUU TWEEEEEEEEAAAA. MAHAMA THE THIEF

NATANI PEPENI FRAFRA MAHAMA CALLING GHANAIANS NAMES HAHAHAHAHAH APUUUUU TWEEEEEEEEAAAA. MAHAMA THE THIEF
Nicholas Osei Kyeretwie-Chicago 7 years ago

It is a pity that Kwasi Pratt of all people still believe that the CPP will ever win power to the Flag Staff House.Whoever thinks so is only day dreaming.The CPP died with Kwame Nkrumah .How can ghanaians vote for the present ...
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It is a pity that Kwasi Pratt of all people still believe that the CPP will ever win power to the Flag Staff House.Whoever thinks so is only day dreaming.The CPP died with Kwame Nkrumah .How can ghanaians vote for the present CPP,when you guys have no ideas of your own,but the ideas of kwame nkrumah.Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966 and whatever ideas he had died with him in 1972.Kwasi Pratt and you guys should forget about kwame nkrumah and tell us your own ideas and plans.If you have no ideas ,then keep your mouths shut ,after all kwame nkrumah's idea was to detain all opponents and be president for God knows when.
justice Kofi 7 years ago

Stomach politician, Kwasi Pratt

Stomach politician, Kwasi Pratt
KWASI DARKO 7 years ago

KWESI PRATT'S COMMENT IS BALDERDASH, ABSOLUTE RUBBISH. WHAT DOES HE KNOW ABOUT TECHNOLOGY OF SUGAR PRODUCTION? WAIT FOR THE SYRUP FROM INDIA TO BE DRIED IN GHANA FOR SUGAR. NO NEED FOR GHANAIAN GROWN SUGARCANE.

KWESI PRATT'S COMMENT IS BALDERDASH, ABSOLUTE RUBBISH. WHAT DOES HE KNOW ABOUT TECHNOLOGY OF SUGAR PRODUCTION? WAIT FOR THE SYRUP FROM INDIA TO BE DRIED IN GHANA FOR SUGAR. NO NEED FOR GHANAIAN GROWN SUGARCANE.
CORNEY 7 years ago

Shame

Shame

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