Contrary to claims by former Agriculture Minister and NPP Flagbearer aspirant Bryan Acheampong that 2024 NPP parliamentary candidates and MMDCEs received bags of fertiliser to distribute to farmers many months before the 2024 elections, but decided to hoard them, available documents from the Ministry of Agriculture contradict the former Minister's claim.

Acheampong, has come under scathing attacks from former MMDCEs and former Parliamentary candidates of the erstwhile NPP government for failing to release the fertilisers on time for onward distribution to the farmers. This development, they believe contributed largely to the NPPs massive defeat in the 2024 elections.

Collaboratively, many former MMDCEs have said they received no fertilisers, while the few who received them said the fertilisers arrived only a day before the election, thus making it impossible to distribute.

In his defence, Bryan Acheampong, while addressing a group of NPP delegates, rejected the claims of the MMDCEs and PCs, stating emphatically that the fertilizers were released to the districts "months" before the 2024 election.

However, a Ministry of Agriculture document dated November 27, 2024, and signed by the Ministry's Chief Director on behalf of the Minister, Bryan Acheampong, clearly exposes Bryan's allegation as false.

The November 27 letter, addressed to all regional directors of agriculture and titled "allocation of fertilizers (NPK and Urea) to the regions," was a notice to the directors of an intended transfer of fertilizers to their respective regions, for onward distribution to MMDAs.

The 27th November letter also stated that when the fertilisers are transported, the logistics company in charge would notify the MMDAs, which gives further indication that as at the time of writing the letter, 10 days to the election, the fertilisers were locked up in Accra and had not been sent out, contrary to the Minister's claim that the PCs and the MMDCEs had received the fertilisers months ago.



Below is a video of Bryan Acheampong's allegations against the NPP Parliamentary candidates and the MMDCEs