President John Dramani Mahama has accused the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of ignorance about developments in the cocoa industry.
According to the President, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate recently embarrassed himself when he promised that he would introduce subsidized fertilizer if he wins the elections.
"When I heard him, I wondered whether he has advisors. This is because since I became President, fertilizer is supplied freely to farmers."
Addressing supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at a rally at Apagya in the New Edubiase Constituency to Kick-off his four-day campaign tour of the Ashanti region Saturday, the President said Nana Akufo-Addo "knew nothing about the cocoa industry."
The President's remark drew loud cheers from the party supporters who gathered in their numbers to listen to the NDC presidential candidate.
President Mahama said the subsidized fertilizer programme was introduced during the Rawlings regime and continued until he (Mahama) assumed office to move the programme a notch higher with free distribution.
Government on top of issues
Explaining what his government had been doing to boost the cocoa industry, President Mahama stated that the government currently pays 75 per cent of the world market price to cocoa farmers, the biggest ever in the history of the industry in Ghana.
Previous payments had been at 70 per cent of world cocoa price.
When free inputs were added, he said, the current price paid to farmers would be over 80 percent.
Government, he said, was also supplying free inputs to farmers. He said over 60 million cocoa seedlings had been supplied freely to farmers for planting.
The President was hopeful that given the encouraging work being done by the Ghana Cocoa Board, Ghana would by the next four or five years be producing over one million tonnes of cocoa annually.
President Mahama described the NPP as a party not ready to govern as shown in the divisions in the party.
He therefore urged the Ghanaian people to continue to put their trust in the NDC, which was United and proven to be development-oriented.
President commended
The Dompoasehene, Okofo Sobin Kan II, in a welcoming address commended the President for the many development projects the government had given his traditional area.
He urged the presidential candidates contesting the December polls to accept the results in the interest of the country's peace.
Other rallies
At Anwiaso, Akrofuom and Obuasi, the President told the party supporters to carry the message of hope of the NDC to every corner of their respective areas.
He promised that the Anwiaso clinic would be upgraded to a polyclinic in his second term.
The chief of Anwiaso, Nana Korankye Sarfo, in a speech that virtually endorsed the President's second term bid, said "John Dramani Mahama will never send NDC to opposition."
He also predicted that the NDC parliamentary candidate for Adansi Asokwa, Mr Evans Amankwah, a legal practitioner, would defeat the NPP’s Mr Kobina Tahir Hammond in December.
Huge welcome
In all, President Mahama visited five constituencies on the first day and received a huge welcome in the region which is the stronghold of the main opposition NPP.
At Apagya where the first rally was held, it was as if the town was under siege as party supporters poured out in their numbers to welcome the President.
Source: Daily Graphic
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EDIOT AZAA MAHAMA
Can you let us know what you are going to do instead of responding to Nana Addo. He is talking of what he will do so please talk of what you have done and will do and stop the childish jibes.
I am a farmer and my parents are. Mahama is the one who is very ***barred word***. what an insult to farmers? Cocoa farmers are now worst off. The fertilizer subsidy is not working sir. The poor,pitiful increase in price of cocoa is an insult to say the least. Wake up mr talkative president and do something better. Ghana is sinking! You are too desperate to win this election just to cover your corruption but I can assure you that Ghanaians are more than determined to change you.
and John Mahama is c0rrupt, v!sion11ess and incompetent.....
When idiooooots become presidents they speak by heart and f000lish1y. Mahama you are an apology of a human being
Mahama is ***barred word*** and extreme arrogant since he did not suffer to be the president, check when he is walking and talking to Ghanaians raising his shoulders as if he owns the world.
i have always said that this john mahama guy is fit for the leadership of this country. can someone tell me what actual work john mahama has ever engaged in in his lifetime, apart from politics. this guy knows nothing about running a business let alone a whole country. he is simply corrupt to the core
This statement has pained these npp ediots paaaaaaa oooooo. What is wrong if you call a weed smoker ***barred word***.
IF FERTILIZER ARE SUPPLIED FREELY BY GOVERNMENT AS YOU CLAIM MR PRESIDENT, WHY HAVEN'T MET 1-MILLION OR SO METRIC TON TARGET,I SMELL SOMETHING FISHY, I DON'T ABOUT YOU. RATHER CHECK YOUR DISTRIBUTION LINES AND CONFIRM
Fertilizer is not for free they gave them to NDC gurus and they sell to NDC card bearing members i have seen it with my naked eyes NDC is most corrupt party i have ever heard of, if they continue to rule the nation Ghana will go back to hipic again