PNC Analyst: Prez Mahama, ZoomLion And rLG Are Duping The State

A Policy analyst of the People’s National Convention(PNC), Atik Mohammed, has lashed out at ZoomLion and a subsidiary of the AGAMS Group of Companies, rlg Communications, claiming he has a reason to believe that ; “these are companies that are in serious connivance with institutions of state with the support of the President apparently to steal our(Ghanaians) monies.”

Speaking as a panelist on Peace FM’s morning show programme “kokrokoo”, monday morning, he clarified that he was not against the growth of Ghanaian business and it is one of the priority areas he expects every government to focus on but to him, it appears that rLG and ZoomLion are companies that are in “serious connivance” with the President to steal from the good people of Ghana.

“The President somehow have been benefiting from the deals of companies which in my opinion are duping the state,” he stated.

He told Tweneboah Kodua(TK) host of the show that, there should be no way Ghanaian businesses should become agents for the stealing of the resources as well as become cronies in inflicting pain on their own people.

“I will vehemently and forcefully oppose such businesses,” he stressed.

He questioned the rationale behind the release of GHC100 million by the Ministry of Finance to rLG for the building and distribution of laptops a week or two before the 2012 general elections.

This distribution by rLG, he claims, was just an arrangement to justify the money given to them by the government because the laptops were given to nonexistent schools, non Ghanaians and females in male schools as well.

“What is the justification for the laptop distribution,” he asked.

In the case of ZoomLion, the former youth organizer of the PNC said “beyond sanitation, they (ZoomLion) have been elected to be suppliers of other things; motor, cars and other things made in China…they are forcing the assemblies to consume them”.
This, he insists is killing the assemblies.

“They are virtually killing our assemblies, starving them of resources,” he stated.

The energetic policy analyst of the PNC called for a review of the contracts between ZoomLion and the assemblies, and questioned where some local companies got money to support the campaign of the President and the NDC.