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New COCOBOD CEO to take home more than twice Akufo-Addo's salary

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  • Odikro 6 years ago

    Even if you pay them GHS1 million, they will still steal more than 10 times that each month anyway. They also benefit from the 10 percent cuts they get in contracts. Stop the noise as if that's all they take home.

  • Mike from Ho. 6 years ago

    Incredible! Things are happening in GH. 77, 44, 22. All taking place in now difficult GH?

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 6 years ago

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  • Aletse 6 years ago

    wat is your point at all.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 6 years ago

    Forgive me

  • Independents 6 years ago

    Akwasidadade, blame the ndc for all care..bcos r u too blinded by the npp...and that is your problem to deal..now the country is way tougher than b4 so it's a political strategy ur party is selling to the public with all thes ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 6 years ago

    you said it right

  • Opoku-Wiafe 6 years ago

    Ghana for u

  • critic 6 years ago

    So what? Depending on the job people earn six figure salaries ie $100 000 plus and we are here complaining about less than $10 000 a month? Pls. What do black stars players make? Wake up.

  • EWURADE KASA 6 years ago

    Th is wrong and must be corrected. These same people have free govt cars, govt houses, and all scholarships for their kids. What are they doing for the foot-soldier cocoa farmers???

  • king k 6 years ago

    Apart from signing signatures and attending cocoa meetings, what kind of work do they do to take so much money? Do they bend steel with their bare hands or break stones with their teeth?

  • Independents 6 years ago

    Great point king k, wise one

  • Brain rejuvinator 6 years ago

    And so what? If Akufo Addo want take such money home, he should resign and become CEO for COCOABOD. The travelling allowance he Akufo Dwarf Addo is making through travel to beg, the forget.

  • Okra 6 years ago

    Ur stupid guy ,Ur nt mature to comment on dis ,I hope Ur frm dat village dats why ur saying dis.ur typical villager.ghana get villagers still ooo,dis guy is one

  • Independents 6 years ago

    Okra, be wise no insults please...tolerance and free speech.

  • Kwadwo Kyei 6 years ago

    Obviously, you are an imbecile, and what can one say to an imbecile? So sad we have creatures like you in our midst polluting the environment.

  • Dagadu 6 years ago

    Ma guy, this thought is from your ass. Is your brain positioned there?**Jxt asking**

  • Ab 6 years ago

    New CEO of COCOBOD built purposeful libraries for cocoa farming communities as a social responsibility. Currently children of cocoa farmers are shying away from school why? This is a major concern for our nation and the entir ...
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  • Kizito 6 years ago

    Masa, dere was more improvement of children going to school b4 npp came. are u telling me just 6mnths npp ve achieved dat?

  • ugly akufo addo 6 years ago

    he claimed he will protect the public purse n he is stupidly protecting it in style

  • Benjamin obeng 6 years ago

    Why do you insult the president?. How old are you.... Will you be happy when someone insult your father. Talk is cheap. Nana Addo will be worshipped in your family if he was a member of your family.

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  • Aduomi 6 years ago

    Oh Ghana

  • save Ghana 6 years ago

    yen.gh is fast gaining the stupid writing of al hajj toilet paper. what is the sense in this crap article. mischief will kill ndc oo. opposition dey pain roff

  • Enoch Agezo 6 years ago

    I dont think Ghana is a poor Country.

  • Enoch 6 years ago

    Soon I will start kidnapping them, Ghana is rich...

  • Independents 6 years ago

    Hahaha

  • ASEMPA 6 years ago

    Brain rejuvinator, you are an IDIOT. Senseless imbecile who calls itself Brain rejuvenator,which brains do you have? Brainless idiot.

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  • Yaw 6 years ago

    Just follow the way they publish their articles ,it indeed bogus,I wouder where they get their sources of information. They did this and it sent them to opposition and have still not change their style of winning votes from t ...
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  • zantoda 6 years ago

    will somebody stop this insanity, as a kid who grew up spending my school vacations on cocoa farms and saw the plight of farmers, these salaries to Cocobod CEO are outrageous and insane to say the least, I wish I could use wo ...
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  • PAUL GBAGBLADZA 6 years ago

    The real thieves are back in power. Bloody thieves

  • Atalasi 6 years ago

    Paul not Ghana only but most of our African leaders.
    I say most because Tanzanian president John Magufuli and some few are not thieves.

  • Isaac.Italy 6 years ago

    Hmmmmmm, I pity my motherland, ordinary Ghanaians are suffering n u people are enjoying.

  • Joe Canada 6 years ago

    I would cut down all my cocoa trees if own cocoa farm and grow onions and pepper. It is outrageous how much these greedy thieves makes from the sweat of poor cocoa farmers in Ghana. I am calling my mother to cut off her cocoa ...
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  • Victor A. Young 6 years ago

    I'm strictly against all those who're calling the salary of the new CEO of COCOBOARD to be slashed. I'm wondering how do we honour our celebrate hard-working MDs and CEOs as a nation? For the fact that the former CEO, Opuni a ...
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  • Victor A. Young 6 years ago

    As usual, the bombing and mis-construction of tenses are everywhere. Please close one eye very tightly while reading so you may not lose both eyes. It's terrific bombings can be dangerous. Wow...!!!

  • Gabby 6 years ago

    Foolish man!! I wish I can see you and slap you!! Do you know what our fathers go through in the villages to cultivate the farms?? Who celebrate them for the hard work, with their own investments?? For you to think that we sh ...
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  • Use Wisdom 6 years ago

    The president's total compensation cannot be compared to the ceos . Someone better stop this man before he starts causing disaffection amongst farmers and the cocobod. Besides is Boahen Aidoo himself happy with all these publ ...
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  • Kofi 6 years ago

    Don't we have professional journalists in Ghana?
    Always their write ups are so vague. Most journalists are very lazy. Is it difficult to find out exact base pay of cocobod CEO ?

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  • Sammy 6 years ago

    Why is this news? If you think the president is on GHC22k then you really are on CRACKS.

    The prime minister of UK is clearly not on Monthly: GBP 12,453.00 as publicised. Think about it...

    How about OBAMA's Monthly: USD ...
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  • pocket lawyer 6 years ago

    Where did Dr. Opuni go wrong interms of his salary compare to that of the current CEO?

  • mapasomatago on June 23 6 years ago

    Cocoa Farmers need increments and bonus NPP people and stop chopping Ghana money why one person received 44 000 gh cedi From MP to minister you have to think about Ghana Boahen Aidoo

  • Nana Yaw 6 years ago

    Farmers are doing all the hard work and some foolish people somewhere benefiting. If my father is a cocoa farmer I would hv advised him to stop and do something else inside of this nonsense. All they care about is providing ...
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  • O.K 6 years ago

    The cocoa producer is at the village struggling to make ends meet.struggling to get money to buy keta school boys type of fish for his soup .struggling to pay the children school fees,struggling to buy paracetamol to cool his ...
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  • Addae Munumkum 6 years ago

    They will continue to die untimely deaths. What a state Ghana is where crook politicians enjoy the national cake whereas the masses scramble for the cramps.

  • OSUMFOUR 6 years ago

    this nonsense should stop,but now.why should one salary be more than the first gentleman of the state.total nonsense

  • Ray 6 years ago

    Useless country, corrupt Ghanaians officials look at how much he is taking home for doing nothing at the office. My mum worked for the government 30 good years. They stoped her monthly payment when she was about to retire and ...
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  • Kwame Tenadu 6 years ago

    IsCocobod part of the public service of Ghana? If yes , where was Fair Wages Commission when the CEO's salary was being approved? It's high time we went to court to stop this illegality. All these things are being done under ...
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  • Nana Asumadu sakyi 6 years ago

    Why so much brouhaha ?where was d outcry when d former black stars coach was making $50.000 dollars a month whilst living away from Ghana? This guy only spent two months in Ghana and those two months were spent at a hotel at ...
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  • Voyager 6 years ago

    Hmmm... So after all the noise on the previous CEO's salary, is this the much trumpted reduction? And Hackman Owusu Agyemang once again the source of this information? There is wisdom in the saying, 'Look before you leap'.

  • Nash 6 years ago

    Nothing new thieves God is waiting for you.

  • No need 6 years ago

    It's only in Ghana that an employee receives more than the employer. And we seat and say we r poor cos of unemployment. If u only one person takes that much, how much will be left for job creation? They are all the same greed ...
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  • maree stopes 6 years ago

    can lead to kill, kill. remember 1979 and June 4?

  • Attiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 6 years ago

    U see how NPp and their apologies are? It is a widely accepted fact that CEOs of certain critical companies the world over take more pay than the President's of that country. Even in the US most CEOs take more pay than their ...
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  • karim Iliasu 6 years ago

    Hypocrisy at its best ,what of the salary of an average teacher who talks ceaselessly and dust himself with chalk.Ghana ,our way of doing things is not fair.

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  • Economic Advisor 6 years ago

    And we still complain that there is no money in Ghana? No developed country will do this shit no wonder we re still lacking behind.

  • truth 6 years ago

    This guy alone BRAINS is not 2000 engineers. ABA why have these old folks become so greedy! Lord do not give them 100 years wai.

  • inercycl 6 years ago

    renewable every 2 years based on his performance.You can't borrow money to purchase cocoa every year.If this system is not profitable,then COCOBOD should be privatised!

  • Atalasi 6 years ago

    useless Africa leaders, they take this money live luxury, while their own people study under trees, school blocks collapse and kills them.
    This is what a white man will never do. his peoples first, thi ...
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  • Atalasi 6 years ago

    please don't insult your selves for this our leaders, they don't think of us please.

  • Bright Annor 6 years ago

    What's your concern?

  • Voyager 6 years ago

    Hmmm... So after all the noise on the previous CEO's salary, is this the much trumpted reduction? And Hackman Owusu Agyemang once again the source of this information? There is wisdom in the saying, 'Look before you leap'.

  • Osei Owusu 6 years ago

    So who decides this, the government or what body, and he is saying that there will be no bonus this year, and bag of cocoa is gh475, am a cocoa farmer and I have realize that farmers are slaves in Ghana, GOD please have mercy ...
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  • Independent 6 years ago

    It's all political propaganda...Ghanaians wake up and fight against corruption. Our politicians are stilling all the money and they keep saying no money. I always wonder why people fight for these heartless people to steal fr ...
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