Cocoa Prices Increased By Over 60%: Mahama Still Takes Swipe At Akufo-Addo Government

• President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced GH¢1,308 as the new producer price per bag of cocoa
• President Akufo-Addo said this was the highest price to be paid to cocoa farmers across West Africa in a while
• Former President John Mahama downplayed the development, saying the cocoa sector had been mismanaged

The government has raised the prices of cocoa bought from cocoa farmers by over 60%.

The recent price hike is part of measures to prevent cocoa smuggling and improve farmers' income.

President Akufo-Addo, when launching the new cocoa season in Tepa, said farmers would receive GH¢20,943 per tonne of cocoa.

This translates to a GH¢1,308 producer price per bag of cocoa.

President Akufo-Addo said this was “the highest price to be paid to cocoa farmers across West Africa in some 50 years.”

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Mahama criticises new hike

Former President John Mahama was unhappy with the new GH¢1,308 producer price per bag of cocoa.

In a statement on Facebook, Mahama described the new prices as a rip-off of cocoa farmers.

"This is unfair to our cocoa farmers, who have been worse off since the NPP took over the reins of government in 2017."

"In 2016, my government, in addition to the free fertiliser and free cocoa seedlings programme, gave cocoa farmers 66.06% of the FOB Price of cocoa."

Mahama takes on Akufo-Addo over appointment of judges

YEN.com.gh reported in separate criticism that Mahama has accused President Akufo-Addo of appointing several NPP judges to courts.

The former president believes President Akufo-Addo is appointing NPP judges to avoid being held accountable in the future.

Mahama urged National Democratic Congress lawyers to consider careers as judges in Ghana’s judiciary.

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Asiedu Nketia urges Ghanaians to drop NPP

YEN.com.gh reported earlier that the NDC chairman, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, urged Ghanaians to do away with the NPP government in the next election.

Asiedu Nketia described the NPP as the greatest deception in Ghana’s recent democratic history.

The NDC chairman said the Akufo-Addo administration had allowed state capture in Ghanaian society.

Pastor blasts Akufo-Addo.

YEN.com.gh also reported that the founder of the Alabaster International Ministry, Prophet Kofi Oduro, expressed disappointment in President Akufo-Addo.

The pastor said he was shocked President Akufo-Addo said the next NPP flagbearer will fix Ghana’s problems.

President Akufo-Addo made the comments that shocked Prophet Oduro during the NPP Super Delegates Congress.

Source: YEN.com.gh