Gabby Otchere-Darko, a prominent figure in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has drawn attention to the risks associated with labeling businesses as politicians and behaving hostilely toward them.
According to him, this kind of behavior kills companies and stunts economic growth.
Mr. Otchere-Darko expresses his hope for the day when businesspeople will simply be regarded as businesspeople rather than as political figures.
When businesspeople will just be businesspeople is a day I long for. and won’t be brushed aside with political party rhetoric. Not a businessman from DCP or NKP.
All they want is for their company to grow and produce jobs. The marking obliterates. On his X platform, the private attorney said, “It stifles growth in Africa.”
Recall that Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the NDC, demanded the prosecution as well as the immediate cancellation of all unlawful contracts that SML and the GRA had agreed into.
Additionally, he demanded that all government payments to SML be retrieved because they were made in violation of “illegal agreements,” which they said caused the State to suffer significant financial losses.
During a press conference on Monday, April 29, in Accra, Sammy Gyamfi stated, “We are also demanding the immediate publication of the full KPMG investigative report on the dealings between SML and the GRA and the prosecution of all persons involved in the award of illegal contracts and the illegal payments thereof, to SML.”
However, Afenyo-Markin stated, “Now we are aware that our friends in the NDC are calling for certain prosecutions,” during a news conference on Friday, May 3, in Accra. I believe that they simply want to engage in politics as usual and have not given the matter their full attention. Their appeal is baseless because there isn’t any concrete evidence that any state officer has caused financial harm.
“In actuality, the money they believe to be given to SML is not coming from public coffers. As you can see from the agreement, SML is compensated for the revenue it produces, thus they must pay close attention to the specifics. They receive payment at the rate of 0.05% per litre of income produced by the system they established to keep an eye on actions related to the petroleum industry.It’s also important to remember that this business allowed the Mines and Energy Committee to visit and observe the nature of their business. I would like to implore our adversaries to refrain from destroying Ghanaian companies.
“We frequently get out of control and ruin Ghanaian enterprises under the pretext of doing due diligence and maintaining transparency.
