The Management of the Ekumfi Fruits and Juices Ltd has described comments by one Osofo Kyiri Abosom the founder and leader of Life Assembly Worship Centre on a UTV programme, "Mpu ne Mpu" and widely circulated on social media over the weekend, as malicious, blatantly false, misleading and a calculated attempt to run down a promising Ghanaian business for political reasons, and is calling on Ghanaians to treat such comments with all the contempt it deserves.
The said Osofo Kyiri Abosom on UTV program made comments to the effect that the company's state-of-the-art fruit juice factory, at Ekumfi Nanaben has been turned into pure water production factory. Even with the timely correction of his comments by the Board Chairman of EXIM Bank, the said Kyiri Abosom still insisted that what he was saying was the truth and that he has videos to support the statement.
The management of the Ekumfi Fruits and Juices Ltd, in a press statement said the comments by this person is rather unfortunate and misleading.
The company has therefore invited the said Osofo Kyiri Abosom and the host of the program to travel to the factory site within the next 7 days, to see for themselves what the extent of works is, and thereafter, to do the Honorable thing by retracting this falsehood and apologizing or risk being hauled before court to substantiate the claim. The company is also demanding that the said video be made available to the station and to the public at large.
“We have instructed our lawyers to sue this man, and the TV station if this retraction and correction is not done within one week."
"Less than two weeks ago, the Credit Committee and the Board of EXIM Bank visited the factory site to apprise themselves of the progress of work, and with them came a host of media houses, including a TV reporter from UTV who took videos and conducted interviews on what was going on there. It is therefore surprising that such a claim on live TV could not be verified even from the reporter to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of the claim.
"How a fruit juice processing line involving extraction of juice from pineapple, pasteurising and other processes and packaged into tetrepaks and cans can be reconfigured to produce "pure water" baffles our minds. His admission that we have enough pineapples to process make his claim more absurd. Why would anyone, sane or insane, who has procured a machine for pineapples reconfigure same to now produce pure water even in the abundance of pineapples?" it quizzed.
"There is no such pure water activity going on at the Ekumfi factory site and so if there is anyone who has carted pure water from our factory or has bought any kind of water from the Ekumfi Fruits and Juices factory, that person should own up"
“This is how some of these prophets continue to spew lies and end up destroying the country”, it said
To set the record straight, the EXIM Bank financed project which is part of government’s One District One Factory (1D1F) initiative is almost complete with full process testing and training scheduled for the coming weeks. So far the extraction processing lines have been tested and all machines installed.
Per the company’s five-year strategy vision, it is cultivating more than 4,000 acres of pineapples in many communities in the district as well as in the neighbouring districts that would in all, produce 80 million fruits per annum for the processing line.
It has also projected 600 acres per year, in preparing to switchgear to the next phase of cultivation that would see the expansion of its raw material base up to the projected 4,000 acres needed to feed the factory at full capacity.
The company also seeks to expand and sustain its 19 shared-grower sites established in Ekumfi Nanaben, Narkwa, Abor, Eyisam, Otuam, Egyankwa, Etsibiedu, Asaman, Gyankoma and JEA Mills SHS.
In all, share-growers engaged at the Ekumfi sites have cultivated nearly 600 acres of pineapples and keep planting every day to meet the eight acre demand of pineapple per day for the factory.
Additionally, Greenfields and Foods Ghana Limited have also cultivated about 250 acres of pineapples on their two farm sites, one at Gomoa Assin and the other at Gomoa Oguaakrom
The factory can process about 300,000,000 packs of juice annually for the local and export markets and would generate close to GH¢350 million in revenue.
Source: Elikem Agbenyegah
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WHAT AT ALL HAS OSOFO SAID THAT PEOPLE ARE SO MUCH WORKED OUTLIKE THAT. BAWUMIAH HAS SAID A LOT MORE UNTRUTHS THAN THIS BUT WOLKING FREE. DIDNT HE SAY HE HAS ARRESTED THE AMERICAN DOLLAR AND GIVEN THE KEYS TO THE IGP DID ANYONE SENT HIM TO COURT? THE NPP HAS THE TENDANCY OF ATTARKING PEOPLE BUT FEAR TO BE ATTACKED. OSOFO WILL COLLECT FEES SINCE HE PAYS DIVIDENTS TO THE GOVERMENT FOR HIS TV STATION. HE IS HEALING PEOPLE AND TESTIMONIES ARE ALL OVER NOT FAKE. GOD KNOWS BEST LET PUT OFF OUR HUMAN ATTITUDES AND BE IN THE SPIRIT. IF YOU LIKE PUT HIM IN JAIL.
This Osofo is dangerous....sue him and UTV!
all said, I think this Osofo Kyiriabosom is gaining some notoriety with his GUM party activities. I listened to him one day showing a factory where fruit is being processed and all he could say was:"Look at how they are dressed.... like in the operating theatre having covered their mouths to work. Is this the type of work they were promised by our political leaders?" Interestingly, this man wants to lead the nation but does not know that in processing foods, one has to dress to avoid contaminating the food. even in chop some chop bars, you will find the ladies covering their heads with some white cap to prevent some hair falling the food. I would not even talk of CHEFS in our various high standard hotels. It is sad that this Okuraseni Kyiriabosom will descend so low as to question how food processing staff have covered their mouths. He must be stopped with his dubious GUM activities. Ososfo learn before you make pronouncements.
There are more adult f00*00ls in Ghana than even the youth. I will be the last Ghanaian to take this Osofo Kyiri Obonsam serious because the name he is using that alone tell you he is an idi*ot. If this is your father no wonder and imagine he has 10 children that means 10 foo00*00ls in Ghana and that is what has constituted so many f00*00ls in Ghana. I'm so much surprised Ghana journalists choose f00*00ls idi*ots to comment on serious national issues. Sometimes you listen to some of them and you like you want to break whatever device you using to listen, an adult talking like a 3rd grade student in America even they sound more intelligent than some adults in Ghana, making our country a nation full of drama.Nigerians are more serious and intelligent than most adults in Ghana who are called to make comments on radio very appalling! Just look at his face and they allow such an old fo00*00l to joke in Ghana. These private radio station presenters must be serious! and stop always sending their employers to court. My advise to the Akan media employers is to employ Akuapim twi speakers than bringing down these Kumasi boys who don't respect and talk anyhow they are there for business ! Listen to Abedi Anim on Omanfm Net2TV the way he comport himself and the questions he ask and his moderation is excellent.We have the people who can make Ghana great and strong "GO FOR THEM"
Characters like osofo kiriabosom is wasting precious Ghanaians youth time. If indeed he cares for ordinary Ghanaian why is he charging consultation fee? Kwame nkrumah that he is always referring to in his TV station did not extort money from Ghanaian under the guise of consultations. Osofo Kyiriabosom should understand that Ghanaians prefer characters who always create waelth for many not a person who takes money from less privilege in the society.Osofo should quote one biblical context that suggests that consultation should attracts money . Even though Ghanaian's have not giving him any mandate yet but cleverly making money from them through consultation, then it will worse when voted to power all our monies will be gone. Osofo should not take us for granted at all