{"id":754480,"date":"2019-11-28T21:12:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T21:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/28\/govt-to-soon-release-komenda-factory-forensic-audit\/"},"modified":"2019-11-28T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T21:12:26","slug":"govt-to-soon-release-komenda-factory-forensic-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/28\/govt-to-soon-release-komenda-factory-forensic-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to soon release Komenda Factory forensic audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"371\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Komenda-Sugar-factory-696x371.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Komenda Sugar factory\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Park Aggrotech Company Limited, a subsidiary of the Skylark Group of companies from India won the bid to manage the sugar factory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah, has revealed government\u2019s plans to release a forensic audit ordered into the affairs of Komenda sugar factory.<\/p>\n<p>Government in May 2019 requested a forensic audit into how the factory, which at the time of its commissioning in 2016, valued at 35 million dollars, devalued by more than 60 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Deputy Minister, the factory which was constructed with an Exxim Bank loan and inaugurated by former president John Mahama and expected to change Ghana\u2019s dependency on sugar imports never happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can the NDC deceive us that they gave sugar to the Komenda<br \/>\nChief who is now saying he doesn\u2019t even know the colour of sugar the factory<br \/>\nproduced or is sugar something he cannot buy,\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe forensic audit on this canker is ready and very soon it will be released and everyone will hear of it with officials found culpable to be made to answer,\u201d he said in an interview on Accra-based radio, Neat FM monitored by Adomonline.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Komenda Sugar Factory was closed down a few weeks after commissioning and has remained closed due to lack of sugar cane for processing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Government on Tuesday, November 26, 2019, handed over the factory to an Indian firm, Park Aggrotech Company Limited based in Ghana and a subsidiary of the Skylark Group of companies.<\/p>\n<p>The company won the bid to manage the sugar factory and breathe life into it after a three-and-half year break.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park Aggrotech Company Limited, a subsidiary of the Skylark Group of companies from India won the bid to manage the sugar factory Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah, has revealed government\u2019s plans to release a forensic audit ordered into the affairs of Komenda sugar factory. 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