Owner of Wontumi Multimedia, Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, has opposed an assertion by his good friend Mr. Randy Abbey that the government of President Akufo-Addo isn’t an industrial one.
Mr. Antwi-Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi explained in a telephone interview to Wontumionline.com that under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo, there has been a major industrial revolution in Ghana making the assertion of Mr. Abbey that government is lamenting, a weak one.
According to Chairman Wontumi, despite the hardships being experienced across the globe, the current government has put in measures to revive defunct industries and built an economy that has survived the torture of COVID-19 and the hardships posed on the world by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The host of Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana show, sort to create an impression that the government of President Akufo-Addo finds it easy to lament instead of fixing challenges facing the country despite being in office for 6 years.
“A mandate is given to a group headed by a person on the basis of what they believe is the right direction to take the country. Six years on those people cannot be allowed to open the Book of Lamentation. I mean we will be crazy people if we tolerate that thing”, Mr. Abbey said on his show.
But Chairman Wontumi responded that as recent as 9thAuguts, 2022, President Akufo-Addo inspected a yam/cassava factory in Bimbilla valued at GHC9.2million. He indicated that the Ghana Exim Bank has provided a credit facility amounting to GH¢1 million (10.8% of the total project cost) which was disbursed in February 2021 to Global Almas to run the business.
He continued that despite the country picking up from where COVID-19 left us, President Akufo-Addo’s government is constructing major roads to help the industrial sector. Chairman Wontumi pointed out the Dome-Kitase road which cost $35million and is expected to be completed within 24 months.
He added that through agriculture, food has been abundant on the market and there are no shortages like other countries in Africa are facing.
“I want to invited my good friend Randy Abbey to Akumadan. He will come and meet people selling a tuber of yam for GHC10 only. He will get 100 yams for GHC100”, Chairman Wontumi said.