Randy is not Akufo-Addo's relative to be travelling around with chair - COCOBOD PRO blasts Miracles

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has dismissed allegations made by Dennis Miracles Aboagye, Director of Communications for the Bawumia 2024 campaign, claiming that CEO Dr Randy Abbey was seen carrying a leather seat during workplace tours.

Mr. Aboagye criticized Dr Abbey, accusing him of complaining alternatively than delivering connected promises.

According to him, the caller CEO has been spending clip moving from 1 cocoa workplace to another, lamenting challenges inherited from his predecessors alternatively of fulfilling the NDC’s run committedness to cocoa farmers.

Speaking successful an interrogation connected Accra-based Channel One connected Wednesday, May 7, Mr. Aboagye questioned the ground connected which the NDC promised to summation the shaper terms of cocoa—a committedness they are present failing to fulfill.

“So you perceive to the COCOBOD CEO, who is moving from 1 cocoa workplace to different with this leather chair, and the farmers archer him, ‘You promised america that cocoa should beryllium GHC6,000 per container and not GHC3,000. Why haven’t you done it?’ And past helium says, ‘Since we came, we realized there’s a batch of messiness successful COCOBOD, and the mode things are, it volition beryllium hard for america to summation prices,’” helium said.

However, successful an interrogation with Channel One TV, the Head of Corporate Communications astatine COCOBOD, Sam Jerome, refuted the allegation, describing it arsenic an outright prevarication and urging the nationalist to dainty it with the contempt it deserves.

He added that the CEO is simply a humble servant who respects those helium works with and would ne'er lord implicit them.

"...Why connected world would anyone impeach idiosyncratic similar Dr. Randy Abbey of trying to lord implicit farmers? That is simply not the case. You tin spell to each six regions we person visited—only 1 remains—and talk to the radical there. Ask them if we adjacent carried a integrative chair. We ne'er did thing similar that. We saw the communicative successful the media, and it was fabricated. But for it to travel from idiosyncratic similar Miracles Aboagye, I thought it was beneath him to prosecute successful specified falsehoods."

He urged the NPP to usage their level to respond to the exposés the CEO has been revealing, alternatively than trying to discredit him.

“I expected that, erstwhile fixed the opportunity, they would respond to the revelations the CEO is making—things Ghanaians were antecedently unaware of. That is what we should beryllium discussing truthful we tin person a meaningful statement oregon speech that benefits the Ghanaian farmer. Not this baseless assertion astir him carrying a chair, which ne'er happened. The CEO is not a comparative of erstwhile President Akufo-Addo to beryllium inheriting immoderate contented of carrying chairs around.”