President Akufo-Addo has assured cocoa farmers of massive support of his government for the cash crop farmers in the next cocoa season.
Addressing the nation in his constitutional State of the Nation address on the floor of parliament on Tuesday, February 27, President Akufo-Addo noted that under his administration the price of cocoa has seen a great increment per bag from GHc800 to GHc1,300.
“Mr Speaker, we all witnessed the spectacular increment of the cocoa price from eight hundred cedis per bag (GH¢800) to one thousand, three hundred cedis (GH¢1,300) per bag in the current cocoa season, the highest increase in fifty (50) years.
“With the current trend of the world cocoa price, cocoa farmers can be sure that I will do right by them in the next cocoa season,” said President Akufo-Addo.
In the area of digitalisation, President Akufo-Addo stressed that the country is currently ranked number one in West Africa and seventh in Africa as far as e-governance is concerned.
“Ghana is making giant strides in the area of digitalisation thereby improving transparency, accountability and efficiency in the public sector and accelerating the growth of our economy,” he added.
As Ghana prepares for its 9th general elections since 1992, President Akufo-Addo has tasked the Electoral Commission of Ghana to hold long and unending collaboration with the political parties in the country in the build up to the general election in December.
“I urge the Electoral Commission to work with the political parties to iron out whatever problems there might be,and I am happy that the Electoral Commission, after engaging the parties,has shelved plans to change the 7th December date. Politics, after all, has been described as the art of the possible, and, if that is what we are engaged in, it should not be beyond us to resolve the problems that come up, and concentrate on working to build the happy and prosperous country we want”, he said.