My Critics Are Jealous Of Me - Woyome

Business man Alfred Woyome has maintained his transactions in Ghana, most of which have been a subject of controversy are altruistic and patriotic enterprises  meant to transform Ghana into a developed country like Malaysia.

If anything, it is his critics who are intoxicated with jealousy, Woyome suggested in an interview on Joy FM's news analysis program Newsfile, Saturday.

"The kind of thing that we want to do is not from government. You people have said why is Malaysia like this, and Ghana has not done that and your own citizens are trying better to do the things so that you can get the Malaysia and out of jealousy and envy you spew out this which are false," he said.

The NDC financier, is in a fresh ¢35 million contract with government, with a promise to build a Deep Sea Port.

His new contract comes at a time when he is struggling to negotiate a repayment plan for an amount of 51.2 million cedis illegally paid to him by government in 2010, an amount the Supreme Court has ordered him to refund to the state.

His company, Anator Holdings Limited signed the new ¢35million agreement with the former Transport Minister Dzifa Ativor in December 15, 2015, with Woyome tasked to raise funds for the project.

Woyome said the project, which he described as a West African project  will create as many as three million jobs for the country's unemployed youth.

The business man initially claimed to have been employed by Anator Holdings, as a Financial engineer, but was reminded by the host Samson Lardy Anyenini that the agreement he signed was in the capacity as the Executive Chairman of the company.

He later admitted to playing a dual role as the Executive Chair of the company and the financial engineer at the same time for a company which started business in 2005.

Alfred Woyome said his company only signed a non-committal MOU with the Ghana Ports and Harbours which does not involve a penny from government.

"We did not force government to take any percentage out of anything. The Ministry of Finance agreed that it will take conditional upon certain issues," he explained.

Woyome said the project has already begun, project sites acquired with competent lawyers, home and abroad employed to see to clean project.