The District Chief Executive of Kumawu, Samuel Addai Agyekum, has accused former President John Mahama of collapsing WAMCO, a cocoa processing company in Takoradi in the Western Region.
Mr Agyekum, noted that the company was shut down for close to three years after Cocobod, under the erstwhile Mahama administration, allegedly stopped supplying cocoa beans to the company, forcing a total of about 254 employees of WAMCo to be sent home by management of the company.
The Akufo-Addo administration, while campaigning for power in 2016, promised to help
resuscitate the company. On July 24, 2019 a visit by President Akufo-Addo and the CEO of Cocobod, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, to the company in Takoradi revealed that WAMCo was making a net profit of $2 million.
“The cocoa processing company in Takoradi was collapsed in 2014 under John Mahama just as He collapsed Obuasi Gold Mines, it took the intervention of Nana Addo to invest into WAMCO for the 254 workers who lost their jobs to be employed again.” If you luck commitment, you can’t manage or govern, he added.
He, therefore, assured cocoa famers governments interest and vision to invest into their activities and make the cocoa industry instrumental tool to Ghana’s development while farmers continue to enjoy what is due to them.
Honorable Samuel Addai Agyekum continued “Our cocoa farmers are not greedy and hypocrites, they appreciate what ever government gives to them and that’s what they deserves. We shouldn’t interfere in what they earn while we’re not in their shoes. The commitment of Nana Akufo Addo and Bawumia will never take what belongs to our hardworking farmers. When the international market increases price, the government will increase it for our farmers, they can never take what belongs to farmers.”
He advised cocoa farmers to participate in the cocoa pension scheme to benefit them at aged.
