Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that the directors of the Produce Buying Company (PBC) will be investigated for their actions that caused the problems of the company.

Mr Mahama accused the two directors of attempting to seek refuge in Parliament from accountability, but God being so good, they lost their bid to be parliamentary candidates on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Speaking with cocoa farmers in Kumasi and the General Agriculture Workers Union on Thursday, February 8, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) said, “The workers of PBC have not been paid for about 8 months to 9 months and it is not known when they will receive their salaries, it is instructive to note that two of the directors who have left PBC into the ditch could see that they had finished the company and so they were looking for new careers and so they went and stood as parliamentary candidates on NPP ticket and God doesn’t sleep.

“Happily, they lost. Happily, they both lost, and we thank God that he made them lose, because you cannot behave like this, run a profitable company like this into the ditch and you want to bail out and go to Parliament. They have to stay and wait for accountability. When we come, we will probe what happened to PBC and hold them to account,” he said.

Recently, General Secretary of the Ghana Agricultural Workers Union, Mr Edward Kareweh, cited mismanagement and corruption as the causes of the challenges of PBC.

He stated that the government has allowed for the company to be mismanaged, leading to its collapse.

“We are aware that many state institutions are not performing, they are not making profits and PBC is one of them where the state has folded its hands and there is so much corruption, there is mismanagement to the extent that labour force has to reduce and now that we have legal action taken and judgment given for the assets of the company to be disposed of to meet loan obligations by statement institutions. For instance, GCB, is a state institution, ADB is a state institution, Cal Bank is Ghanaian-owned, UMB is also a Ghanaian owned and the others as well.