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Wife of Rapper, Sarkodie, Tracy has come under attack for her recent post on X about Ghana’s port and its ownership.
Tracy Sarkcess as she is popularly known said Ghana does not own anything at its port because it was given to a French businessman in 2014.
She was reacting to claims that some Medical Supplies from the Global Fund have been left to rot at the Tema Port.
Her post read “Gov.’s stake in the Tema Port is currently only 15%. We do not have a say in what happens at our Port since 2014. It is owned by French billionaire Bolloré who owns 17 other ports in West Africa”.
Her post hasn’t gone down well with some members of the opposition NDC who were in power in 2014.
They believe that Tracey is being used to push an agenda by the current government and hence they will take none of that.
Beatrice Annan who is a member of the NDC communications team took on Tracey for her post indicating that she needs to educate herself on the issues.
Sarkodie’s wife, who is alleged to have a bit of education abroad, refused to study documents but has allowed herself to be used for cheap propaganda purposes for reasons best known to her.
The current arrangement at the Port is a simple BOT under which MPS,which already had a 20 year Concession arrangement with GPHA dating back to 2004, got it extended by 15 years to invest close to a billion dollars to expand the Port to four times its original size.
They will operate it for another 15 years and hand it over to GPHA. Similar to AMERI.
BOTs are alternative way of financing infrastructure projects and are perfectly normal. To say the port has been sold to the Concessionaire is pure illiteracy.
In this space, we must not allow sweeping statements or propaganda masquerading as intellectualism.