Flagbearer of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom has bemoaned the over politicization of the bread and butter issues in the country.

According to him, politicians in most cases overlook then to oppose the things when in fact the lives and livelihoods of citizens are at stake.

Dr. Nduom comment is in reaction controversy that has characterized the revamp of the Komenda Sugar factory in the Central region.

In his view, the failure of the old factory brought prolonged unemployment, early death and desperation therefore “God will punish anyone who plays politics with the people over this new factory.

Below is the full statement

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 naught 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.

More to come......

Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom