The aspiring flagbearer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kennedy Agyapong, has said he will be a better manager of the Ghanaian economy than the other contenders.
Agyapong said over the weekend that he will employ 1000 workers when his steel plant comes into operation from next month.
Addressing delegates at Kintampo East, the Assin Central lawmaker said he has established businesses that employ over 7,000 workers, which could make him a better manager of the economy, taking a swipe at one of his opponents, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia.
“With my steel plant, I am employing thousands of workers in this country by the next few months,” the maverick politician said. “I have the biggest cold store in the whole of Africa, as for you, the government pays you, pays your house girls, pays your security, you are living in government bungalows.”
“But I pay 7,158 workers every month in this country. So, between the two of us who is the strategist? This is internal politics and so we shouldn’t be dirty but if they attack me I will reply,” Agyapong said.
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Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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