The flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama has described as sheer wickedness President Nana Akufo-Addo’s decision to stop the supply of free fertilisers to cocoa farmers and allow the fertilisers to expire and dispose of them.
“I feel very sad for our cocoa farmers”, President Mahama said, adding “we had good plans and started implementing good policies for the cocoa sector”.
He was speaking during an interaction with cocoa farmers and the people of Enchi in the Aowin Constituency of the Western North Region on Tuesday.
According to the former President, the supply of free fertiliser, seedlings and inputs to cocoa farmers led to an increase in the annual yield of cocoa.
“When we started giving out free fertilisers, it was because we realised it will help improve yield, and in the 2016/17 crop year, we recorded 950,000 tons… I cannot understand why this government will decide to stop that and sell the fertilisers to the farmers… In fact, it is wickedness to leave the fertiliser in warehouses because the farmers cannot and won’t buy them, and throw them away after they expire,” he lamented.
President Mahama who is on a two-day tour of the Western North Region assured the people that with their continuous support, the NDC will win the 2020 elections and resume the implementation of its people-friendly policies and initiatives.
He acknowledged the support of the people of Enchi and the Aowin Constituency for consistently voting for the NDC, assuring them that all projects stopped by the Akufo-Addo government will be resumed and new projects added when he wins the 2020 elections.
Many road projects in the cocoa-growing areas being funded by the Ghana Cocoa Board have all been stopped, with roads scheduled to be completed in 2017, now in more deplorable states.
“The Elubo to Enchi road was on contract and we gave it to two contractors so they can be completed early. They should have been completed by now, but thanks to the NPP that road is worse now than when we started working on it”.
The NDC flagbearer also used the occasion to welcome to the NDC a number of NPP supporters who announced their defection to the NDC, asking them to join the Aowin constituency members to campaign for the party to win and bring relief to the people.
Source: Daily Graphic
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Ghana is dealing with the most dishonest person we have had as president, he is so ***barred word*** and so desperate as well as deceptive. An ndc friend told me they know mahama is a cruuuk but they always choose to keep quiet but he always expose himself through the things he says, he was ones a "visa connection man" at Japanese embassy when he was at their communication unit, such a nonentity with cr1minal mind to be made a president tweakai never again
LEAVE US ALL AGAIN. GHANA DOES NOT NEED IMF AGAIN. GET LOST.
hypocrite and a liar
Masaa Mahama stop this. Under the current arrangement subsidized koraa they are smuggling them and so what.
If my memory serves me right, I will not be wrong to say that JDM has no business talking about cocoa and the cocoa farmers. When in 2008, NPP was seeking reelection for Nana Addo to come to power, Ama Benyiwa Doe and a host of NDC thugs went round telling fishermen that Kuffour and Akufo Addo do not have the sea where they come from so they do not have the fisherfolks at heart. Today, JDM who does not hail from any of the cocoa producing regions is going round telling Cocoa Farmers he would care for them. Does he know how cocoa is produced? This desperate greedy man who is not satisfied with his luut should give us a break. He is just a waste on our ears. Yabr3 no!!
Mahama, you used 8years mainly to award contracts and expect Nana Addo to use two and half years to construct. Even your NDC followers knows you are deceiving Ghanaians and yourself, but they will be quiet to survive on your riches
As if you brought relief to the people of Ghana. We were here when your party ruled for 8years. Everything was bad, what saved you was the infrastructure you built. Cooncerning the cocoa farmers did you hear IMF - Your saviour asking the government to reduce the producer price to farmers which the government said NO? Mr Mahamah you are a very dishonest person.
When did Mr. TIO realize this? What did he do for cocoa farmers when he was president? NEVER AGAIN!
Is the former President trying to say that roads were given on contract when he was about exiting.? What did he do to those roads during his 8 years stay in office??? Please if he had anything good he would have done it 8 years and not now