The Aveyime Rice Mill Project was conceived with the best of intentions and at no cost to government, the NDC's mouthpiece, The Ghanaian Democrat reports.

Government according to the paper only acted as guarantor and all payment made, on the guarantee, to the company.

Currently, payments made to support the provision of infrastructural and other support services have benefited the inhabitants of the Aveyime-Vume area.

These include the resettlement programme under which 170 houses have been built, feeder roads constructed whilst electricity, water and telephone services have all been extended to the project site.

All is now ready for rice production. So how can this gigantic project of immense benefit to the nation be described as "financial loss" to the state?

These observations, according to the Democrat, were made by the former Minister of Communications in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) regime, Hon. John Mahama at the press conference on Monday.