[ 2016-11-29 ]

I am creating 3.4m jobs - Woyome explains new gov't contract
National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier
Alfred Agbesi Woyome has touted the benefits of a
new GHC35million contract with government
predicting that it will create at least 3.4million
jobs.

The claim was contained in a press statement
reacting to revelations that he has landed another
juicy government contract to construct some
industrialised parks despite scandalous
circumstances surrounding his previous dealings
with the state.

Government unsuccessfully prosecuted Woyome for
defrauding the state when he was paid
GHC51.2million in 2010.

Although the state's criminal prosecution was
unsuccessful, a private citizen's civil
proceedings at the Supreme Court was and Woyome
has been ordered to return the money to the
state.

He is yet to do so two years after the court order
in 2014.

But this has not stopped government from entering
into fresh deals with the businessman who has
spent at least five years battling the state in
the judgment debt scandal.

Pressure group, OccupyGhana which made the latest
revelation about the new contract awarded Woyome
in December 2015, is incensed as is a
cross-section of the public

But Alfred Woyome has been explaining the new deal
and insists he is not getting any money from
government as speculated.

He says this new contract is a private public
partnership in which his company, Anator Holdings
Company, will create 216 "lndustrialized Green
Towns in every District" across the country.

His company will be acting as financial engineers
and afterwards manage the projects for an
unspecified period of time.

In effect, the state is not investing money into
the lndustrialized Green Towns, he is rather
looking to invest money into the state with the
view of helping increase revenue and create jobs,
the embattled businessman pointed out.

All the state is doing, he claims, is giving him
legal and sovereign backing to go about raising
money for the public infrastructure.

"The Government of Ghana is just a facilitator as
the main beneficiary in the PPP arrangement
without putting in a dime except to gain over
US$2.5billion per annum in GDP increase and
taxes," the statement said.

The project, Woyome said, will create 50,000
managerial jobs, a minimum of 350,000 direct
skilled jobs, and over 3,000,000 direct and
indirect unskilled jobs.

Source - Joyfm

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