The GoGo rice mill plant operated by Mr Senyo Hosi, former CEO of the Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors, was wrecked by a storm.
In a tweet, he announced that "Last week Saturday, a devastating storm and whirlwind ripped our 4yr GoGo rice mill factory at Adaklu apart I am grateful to Hon @KAgbodza @LudwigHlodze and Hon Letsa for commiserating with us on site within 24 hrs of its occurrence. We shall build back stronger!"
Senyo Hosi recently chastised the Ministry of Food and Agriculture's (MoFA) Statistics Department for creating untrustworthy statistics, stating that he lost millions of Cedis because he relied on the Ministry's data when opting to enter the farming industry.
"When I used data from the Ministry of Agriculture, I lost millions," he said during the 3business agribusiness dialogue on Wednesday, October 26, 2022.
There was no leadership at the Ministry, according to him.
He stressed, “There is a failure at the top, I don’t think we have an Agric minister in this country.”
However, the Ministry requested further information from him in order to verify his allegation.
The Ministry called his remark "unfortunate" and claimed it harmed the MoFA's credibility.
The Ministry demanded the nature of the investments into which millions of Ghana cedis were sunk, the source of MoFA data that informed the failed investments, whether there was any engagement with any technical directorate or senior official of the Ministry on the specific data related to the investments, and whether a formal complaint, verbally or otherwise, was ever lodged about the integrity of the investments.
Hosi subsequently replied to the Ministry stating among other things that "If you [MoFA] were really concerned about the commercial and social viability of investments in the sector as you seem to express, you would have been more responsible than ignore communication from one of the biggest rice investors in that district, region and the country. Respectfully, my address is known to your office and so if you are truly minded about my pain and the merits of my argument, you would have reached out to me directly while sharing public interest in mitigating concerns of industry.
"I therefore do not find your Ministry under the current leadership an honest policy partner in the development of my business to warrant any submission of my investment details for your consideration.
"I however entreat you to honestly audit the production, yield, investment, and subsidy deployment information you publish."