Former President John Dramani Mahama has provided an explanation for why the Great Kosa Company’s founder, Apostle Kwadwo Safo Kantanka, did not receive the necessary backing for his auto company from succeeding administrations.
In response to a question about why the car firm could not receive the necessary capital investment, the former president stated that governments, including the late Jerry John Rawlings’, had trouble pinpointing precisely what work Apostle Kantanka was executing.
He claimed that despite the government’s attempts to assist, Apostle Kantanka was unable to secure investors because he had not sufficiently demonstrated the scientific basis of his work.
“When you say God gave you a vision and you took an ant hill and built an engine, I mean no bank would give you money; you get my point,’’ he noted during the interview, which was monitored by 1Family Radio.
“To build a car, you must build the car. You need metals (sic), you must make the engine… If it is an electric car, you must do the circuiting and all that.’’
He continued, “It is all science-based. I was in the first government of Rawlings, and that was when a delegation was sent to see how he could be helped, but he told us it was divine. If it was divine, then God would give that capital to it.’’
Mahama pointed out that Kwadwo Safo Kantanka Jr., the son of Apostke Kantanka, who is currently running the business, has been able to articulate its goals clearly, which has made it simpler for them to secure the funding they require.
“So, we could not get proof of what to really help him with, but his son has taken over the business, and his son says it is an assembly plant—we are importing the components and we are building the vehicle. And so now that the government has started to buy Kantanka cars, I have seen the police using some of them, and so on,’’ he added.
Source: 1Familyradio