NDC awarded cocoa route contracts to their regional leaders – COCOBOD

General News on Friday, July 26, 2019

Source: clbadfmonline.com

2019-07-26

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has disputed the minority's badertions in Parliament that it is cheating and cheating cocoa farmers.

At a press conference held in Accra on Thursday, July 25, 2019, the minority in Parliament said that cocoa farmers were worse off under the Akufo-Addo government than they were under the previous John Mahama government. .

The minority also accused Nana Akufo-Addo of having injected $ 10 million into auditing services related to cocoa production road projects. They also questioned the prudence of suspending projects when no one was found guilty of wrongdoing during the execution and execution of the works.

However, the director of COCOBOD's chief executive, Mr. Fiifi Boafo, met with Valentina Ofori-Afriyie on Clbad91.3FM on the 505 on Thursday, July 25, 2019, dismissing the claims and adding that certain contracts for cocoa routes had been allocated to NDC regional offices. leaders by the NDC government of that time.

He said, "No one will want to undertake a project we do not know the cost. When awarding these road contracts, they provide for a variation of 10%, but under certain circumstances you can vary between about 70% and 80%, which clearly shows that there was no evaluation. appropriate before the award of these contracts.

"We can not continue as an institution of the state through which contracts are awarded, we do not know how much they will cost in the end, and it's just a matter of starting, doing the work and continue as if nothing had happened. So, if someone sits back and says "everything was coming and do it", we share a different opinion, but yes, indeed, COCOBOD has not planned any construction new routes, but COCOBOD has indeed taken over the existing contractual agreements. had to pay for.

"In fact, I look at the contracts documents that have been finalized from 2017 to date, and some of them, the contractors are actually regional executives of the National Democratic Congress."