The Minority in Parliament says it will trigger the necessary processes to prosecute government officials who are responsible for the neglect and the losses associated with the Komenda Sugar Factory.
The $36.5 million facility is yet to be operationalised six years after it was commissioned by the Mahama-led administration.
President Akufo-Addo promised the chiefs and people of Komenda that the factory would be operationalised in April when the chiefs from the traditional area paid him a visit.
In spite of the assurances the factory has still not been operationalised.
The minority on the Parliamentary select committee on trade and tourism says there was no need, in the first place, for government to have halted the processes leading to the operationalisation of the factory when the new administration took office.
According to the minority, the previous administration had set in motion everything related to the factory, including funds secured for raw materials.
The Minority says, upon taking office in 2017, it was incumbent upon government of Nana Akufo-Addo to continue all the programmes and projects of the previous Mahama administration.
A member of the select committee and former Deputy Attorney General, Dominic Ayine, said Ghanaians have been shortchanged in the matter of the Komenda Sugar Factory.
He claimed that the current government has been tagging previous government officials’ actions as criminal and hauling them before the judiciary and prosecuting them for causing financial loss to the state.
He stated that the next NDC administration in 2025 will go to any length to ensure that all government officials responsible for the factory’s abandonment and the project’s losses are prosecuted.
