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Was it May be a Trick to Importing Rice for The School Feeding Program?
John Henry Martey Newman, the Chief of Staff of President Mills is now also the Chief of rice Rice importers in Ghana.
He is said to have imported two containers full load of Indian US Style Rice with each containing 1075 bags. The rice coming from Port Jabel Ali in Dubai with the agent’s address at the destination of the goods as Intermodal Shipping Agency Ghana (ISAG) located at Tema Community 2.
The two containers with numbers FSCU3680322 and TGHU2786196 were discharged in the country on the 12th of January 2009 via MV Pac Aries. The consignee of the 2,150 bags of rice is the Chief of State, the President’s Office, Castle, Accra, Ghana West Africa but this paper’s check in Dubai indicates that the rice were meant for the Chief of Staff.
Last week Thursday when this paper got into contact with the shipper in far away Dubai, the only response we got was “what do you want from us; the rice is for the Chief of Staff”.
A day after the call from this office to Dubai, an agent was seen at the offices of ISAG trying to go through the formalities so that the goods can be cleared following which this paper alerted Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a deputy minister of information for him to pass this information on to the National Security.
As at press time when this paper got into contact with Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, he said, the rice is still at the port and investigations are still underway.
Long last the Government of Ghana will impound the two containers of rice and lastly use it for his school feeding program. A very nice way of telling the Ghanaian People not to import rice but rather rely on locally produced rice, but the Government is using “Tom and Jerry tricks to import rice.
Even though our local rice is just “a drop of water on a very hot stone”, they want to force the Ghanaian People to buy the “nowhere” to find and poor quality Ghana local rice.
This means the Mill government is preaching for water but they themselves are sipping the best of wine.
