10-year jail term - COCOBOD proposes tough penalties for cocoa smuggling

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  • Truth Table 16 hours ago

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  • Kwaku Tee 15 hours ago

    This form of punishment will not work, it used to be there in late 80s & 90s when some of us were teaching in villages on Ghana/Ivory Coast borders. COCOBOD shd reduce the size of its management which is the main cause of its ...
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  • Nene Sackitey 10 hours ago

    @Kwaku Tee. Say that again. Basic economic theory teaches that humans behave rationally on market principles. There would be no smuggling when the right prices are offered. Stop wasteful cocoa farm input subsidies and ins ...
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  • Hahahaha 9 hours ago

    Kweku… Thank you so much for this input…all that paper pushing in the offices don’t produce Cocoa, it’s the “dirty” farmer in rags they so much disregard is the one who makes them have the cocoa beans. If farmers ...
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  • Truth 14 hours ago

    Let's deal with crooks in cocobod and stop these things.. there are already laws for smugglers

  • Yaw 13 hours ago

    Since November cocobod is still owing farmers million of cedis instead of addressing that, your talking nonsense. Even its likely u guys are going to embezzled this domestic bond fast. Criminal cocobod

  • ST GHFUO: Kwame Nkrumah International Airport 13 hours ago

    They should go to the Canadian American or even British embassies and seek counsel because clearly they are confused and can't decide on how to punish smugglers

  • Baafour 13 hours ago

    So how many years for u if 10 years for smuggling cocoa which I agree for buying cocoa from farmers since November last year and have refused to pay.

  • Yaaaa 12 hours ago

    Has jail term stopped galamsay?

  • Cuntiki 12 hours ago

    We will continue to to look for the best market for our cocoa. We will retain our cocoa in Ghana if the price is good in Ghana but we will continue to smuggle it out if the price is better out there.
    It’s not about politic ...
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  • GOLDEN 11 hours ago

    TRANSPARENCY,TRANSPARENCY,TRANSPARENCY,PLUS STRICT ACCOUNTABILITY!!!!!!!!

  • Me 11 hours ago

    And you guys in the office stealing millions go scot free when you are caught. What a country?

  • Mouth mouth 11 hours ago

    Instead of researching into productivity improvements and income improvement for cocoa farmers they sit at Accra and think this way
    We cocoa farmers are suffering

  • Markent 10 hours ago

    This proposal must be directed to galamseyers instead the government does not own any cocoa farm in this country

  • OGyam 10 hours ago

    Ten years for smuggling ten bags of cocoa from Oseikojokrom in Ghana to Niable in the Ivory Coast.
    Witch hunt for any political thief and millions spent in prosecuting them for about ten years. Are we serious

  • HARD_Talk 10 hours ago

    Another bla bla, Farmers in the Central Region ( Assin Foso) are still waiting for their money. Cocoa farmers are struggling to survive. Leave the farmers alone to establish their financial security.