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2004 National Best Farmer recommends Isaac Osei for NPP
presidential running-mate slot
Agona Nkum, (C/R), Feb. 18, GhanGNA -
Madam Efuah Frimpomaah, 2004 National Best Farmer, has added
her voice to suggestions to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to
choose Mr Isaac Osei, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the
Ghana COCOBOD, as running-mate of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo
Addo, NPP presidential candidate.
She said since he assumed office as CEO, of the COCOBOD, Mr
Osei had transformed the cocoa industry, making it more
vibrant and attractive to cocoa farmer in the country.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview at
Agona Nkum at the weekend, after addressing a farmers’ rally
at Agona Nkum, Madam Frimpomaah said the former High
Commissioner to the United Kingdom, had the capacity and
charisma to lure farmers to vote in the forthcoming
election.
Madam Frimpomaah, who is also a member of Council of Elders
of the Agona West Constituency branch of the NPP, stated
that cocoa farmers had benefited a lot since the CEO assumed
office and that he was capable of assisting in the provision
of quality administration if he was given the nod as running
mate.
The 2004 National Best Farmer noted that with the
sustainability of the mass cocoa spraying exercise, hi-tech
and fertilizer credit to the farmers to improve their farms,
massive support would come from the farmers for the NPP.
According to her, the rehabilitation of all cocoa sheds in
the country by the COCOBOD was a major boost to the cocoa
industry, which was the backbone of the nation’s economy.
She said another area Mr Osei had achieved success was a
recent agreement signed between the COCOBOD, government of
Ghana and some development partners, to construct major
roads in cocoa growing areas.
Madam Frimpomaah stressed that the CEO when given the nod
would not need so much marketing, adding that already Mr
Osei had travelled the length and breath of the country to
interact with cocoa farmers to know their problems.
In another development, Nana Okyere Kwaako V, a prominent
cocoa farmer in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District, has also
recommended Mr Osei to be chosen as running-mate to Nana
Akufo Addo.
He said Mr Osei’s administration had made the cocoa industry
more lively and eye-catching to Ghanaians farmers, saying
“many big men in the cities and towns have now returned to
their villages to cultivate massive cocoa farms to boost the
industry.
GNA
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