The Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, has assured cocoa farmers that a future NPP government under Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will restore the cocoa prices.
He makes the point that the current Mahama administration is toned deaf on the cries of cocoa farmers.
“These are the cocoa farmers, the government says, who have accepted the ungodly reduction in the per-bag price of cocoa. The NDC is just toned deaf. NPP under Dr. Bawumia will restore and increase cocoa prices to make farmers happy again….” he wrote on his X page.
Mr Ahiagbah had attributed the cocoa sector crisis to the poor decision of the management of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD).
According to him, the crisis facing the sector is not due to poor management by the previous COCOBOD Management under NPP, but rather the promise by the NDC Government to increase prices of cocoa for farmers, which decision he said has backfired.
Speaking on TV3’s KeyPoints, Saturday, February 21, Richard Ahiagbah said the ND government only took a gamble when they promised cocoa farmers a price increment and ought to apologise to the farmers.
“It has nothing to do with yesterday. It has everything to do with the season that we are in and the decisions that were taken to sell the cocoa that they had. COCOBOD decisions backfired.
“So instead of destroying everybody from the fact and focus on the issue to help farmers. What the government should have done at that emergency meeting was to decide to come out either by the Finance Minister or the COCOBOD CEO to come and apologise that we took a gamble to sell at spot prices and we were waiting the price, and for some reason we didn’t strike on time and we missed it and that decision we took is accountable for where we are,” he stated
source: 3news.com
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