Akufo-Addo pulls Mahama after "crocodile tears"

General News of Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-07-24

The president, Nana Addo Akufo-Addo Dankwa, criticized former president John Mahama for doing nothing to improve the lot of cocoa farmers during his tenure, but to encourage farmers to stay away from home. oppose the current administration.

"I challenged the former president to show Ghanaians a policy adopted by his government to boost cocoa production in the country," said the president yesterday in Daboase, Wbada East District. , during his tour in the western region.

"He should stop crocodile tears in front of cocoa farmers every time he meets them," he added.

"You have done practically nothing to increase cocoa production and when you meet cocoa farmers you behave as if you do them good. Stop pouring those crocodile tears!

Allegation of Mahama

It will be recalled that former President Mahama recently visited cocoa producers in the North West Region and said, among other things, that his regime raised the price of cocoa each year and put in place policies to to improve their lives, but the Akufo-Addo government had not followed these policies, thus causing difficulties for farmers.

In addition, he told cocoa farmers that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government had suspended all cocoa-initiated roads initiated by his government, making roads a headache for locals. of the region.

Reacting to the claims of the former president, President Akufo-Addo said: "As Cocobod's CEO said, my government introduced artificial pollination, pruning, motorized gouging and the mbad spraying of cocoa, among others ", adding that" all these policies are geared towards improving the plight of farmers and boosting cocoa production.He should inform Ghanaians of the policies put in place by his government. "

The president told farmers that, under President Kufuor's regime, cocoa production had risen from 750,000 to 1 million tonnes, thanks to the cautious measures put in place.

"President Mills, former President, and former President Mahama inherited one million metric tons of cocoa production. But when the ex-president left office, cocoa production was reduced to 700,000 metric tons, "the president said.

He said that as part of the Government's "Plant for Food and Employment" policy, about 550,000 coconut plants and about 1.6 million oil palm seedlings had been distributed. farmers in the region to boost production.

Road Policy

Speaking about the lamentations of former President Mahama about deplorable roads in some parts of the region, President Akufo-Addo noted that the former president was not the good person to complain because he was lucky but did nothing to improve the situation.

"Do you remember that when I complained about the bad roads that were here during the campaign, the former president said that it was because I was sleeping, that's why I could not not see the good roads that he had made? "asked the president.

He called on voters to look at the good policies implemented by the government and to keep the NPP in 2020.

President of Ghana Cocobod, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, who was with the president, told farmers that the government of the nuclear power plant had been able to introduce subsidized Hi-Tech cocoa fertilizers and cocoa, and that cocoa production is around 900,000 metric tons. .

Côte d'Ivoire, which also adopted the subsidized fertilizer policy, reached a record 1.8 million tonnes of cocoa, compared to 1.1 million tonnes at the same time that the Mahama administration introduced the free fertilizer program, but could not achieve any significant objective.