Mahama should tell cocoa farmers how his president issued and sold fake fertilizer coupons – Wontumi Fires | Policy

The regional president of New Patriotic Party of Ashanti responded to comments from former President Mahama that the current government had reduced the offer of free fertilizer for cocoa farmers.

In an interaction with cocoa farmers and Enchi residents in the Aowin constituency of the North West region, former President Mahama stressed that the free supply of fertilizers, seedlings and cocoa producers had increased the annual yield of cocoa during his stay. mandate.

He then lamented that "when we started distributing free fertilizers, it was because we understood that it would help to improve the yield. During the 2016/17 crop year, we recorded 950,000 tonnes … I do not understand why this government will decide to stop and sell the fertilizer to farmers … In fact, it's a bad idea to let the fertilizer in warehouses because farmers can not buy and buy them, and will discard them after they expire. "

But Mr Bernard Antwi-Boasiako pointed out that under no circumstances should the former president describe the government led by Akufo-Addo as a bad government. He also warned the former president to stop trading the lie on the current NPP administration and to give the impression that the MPN is proud to let the fertilizers expire just to dispose of them.

Judging by Mr. Mahama's interaction with a cocoa farmer, Mr. Antwi-Boasiako, known as President Wontumi, said he could say that the "bad habit of telling lies" of the former President was growing rapidly and obscuring his sense of judgment.

President Wontumi explained that, rather than former President Mahama blaming the current government, he should have used his program to apologize to cocoa farmers for explaining how his own constituency president had been arrested for taking part to the issue and sale of fake coupons of fertilizer.

In 2018, it was reported that a constituency president of the National Democratic Congress, an opposition party, had been arrested in connection with the loss of $ 12 million in fertilizer as part of Planting for Food and Jobs.

According to the report, the NDC president was arrested at the same time as members of the staff of the Sunyani Municipal Assembly, suspected of having organized the smuggling of government fertilizers to neighboring Burkina Faso with the connivance of Chinese nationals.