Lawyer and former Asante Akim North MP, Andy Kwame Appiah-Kubi, has called for a 28% reduction in salaries for management at the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to align with cuts imposed on cocoa farmers.

Speaking on TV3’s The KeyPoint on February 14, 2026, Appiah-Kubi stressed that the entire cocoa value chain must be reviewed to ensure fairness between farmers and managers within the sector.

“The whole sector must be looked at from beginning to end so that you don’t disengage all of us as farmers and we don’t disengage the managers,” he said.

Appiah-Kubi expressed puzzlement over reports suggesting that managerial staff were seeking pay increases while cocoa farmers faced reduced earnings.

“I cannot understand why someone working as a manager in the cocoa sector would want cocoa institutions to increase their salaries while they decrease ours,” he told host Alfred Ocansey.

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His comments come amid backlash from cocoa farmers and the Minority in Parliament over ongoing structural reforms in Ghana’s cocoa sector, including the reduction in the cocoa producer price.

The Minority has argued that the measures shortchange farmers and worsen their plight.

Appiah-Kubi further proposed that if such pay adjustments, which he described as “haircuts”, are necessary, they should be applied industry-wide.

“I want to wake up one morning to see that COCOBOD has also implemented a 28% decrease in salaries so that we are all at par, and then we can work together and fight together. If this is a haircut, it must be industry-wide,” he said.

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“I want to wake up to the news that COCOBOD Management has reduced salaries by 28% so we can all be at par.” - Lawyer Andy Appiah Kubi, Former MP, Asante Akim North#TheKeyPoints #TV3GH pic.twitter.com/DnMvnPnJ2n

— #TV3GH (@tv3_ghana) February 14, 2026