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Former Minister for Trade and Industry, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has stated that the NDC government handed over a fully functioning Komenda Sugar factory to the current NPP government, as such the Akufo-Addo-led administration should be blamed for the redundant state of the factory.

In an interview with GhanaWeb editor, Kwabena Kyenkyenhene Boateng on ‘21 minutes with KKB’, Spio-Garbrah said this was not the first time an NPP government is collapsing an institution it inherited from a previous government.

According to him the NPP “have generally had a problem with what they inherit from another government”.

“If you go back to the Nkrumah era where Nkrumah left them almost 300 state-owned enterprises they consciously allowed many of these factories to collapse,” he added.

The NDC flagbearer hopeful stressed that sugar was produced from the Komenda Sugar factory when it was completed in 2016 in the presence of many including the media.

Asked where the sugar was now, he said, “the sugar is in the ground now, the factory is not working but it’s not the NDC government which is in power now…we handed over to them a completed sugarcane processing factory worth about $35million based on the loan of the Indian government so their job was to make sure the factory works”.

Spio-Garbrah was also concerned about the maintenance of the equipment in the factory which he said was the latest technology.

“I hope they are oiling the machines and maintaining them even if they are not letting it operate,” he said.