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All top COCOBOD directors asked to stay home with pay – Fiifi Boafo alleges

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  • Mame Ama 3 months ago

    Ghana is sick....very sick...which developing serious country, Appoints positions based on party affilition...no wonder we are poor, backward and under developed..wr are a big Joke!!

  • JM 3 months ago

    This crime will never go unpunished! Ghana will be sweet again

  • Atta Kay 3 months ago

    Randy Abbey's mentor is Ernest Thompson,he did the same thing at SSNIT. Akuffo Addo wanted to imprison him unfortunately John Mahama came in and has freed him.Randy don't care about any financial loss to the state.

  • Sly 3 months ago

    Hello Guys, lets not run into conclusion. All those old big guys in Cocoboaard needs to be fired. Please look at the state of the company.
    These people are not fit to be there, if they are good Cocoboard will not be in this ...
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  • Sly 3 months ago

    Apologies, correction not old guys but big bosses in Cocoboard

  • JESUS IS GOD 3 months ago

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  • Wisefolk 3 months ago

    The person speaking, is he JPP, CPP,PPP. Did Akufo Addo appoint ducks? Are those new appointees not Ghanaians? Are we all of a sudden sick because someone who was a political appointee himself is now saying he and his click h ...
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  • UNDER JM EVERY CRIME IS POSSIBLE 3 months ago

    DURING THE FIRST JM RULE WE SAW MINISTERS TAKING DOUBLE SALARIES,MANY CONTRACTS PAID FOR AND COMPLETED IN THE NDC GREEN BOOK BUT COULD NOT FOUND OR SEE THEM ON THE GROUND. THE SAME SCAMMING HAS BEGUN IN HIS SECOND COMING. WE ...
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  • TRUTH 3 months ago

    IF WHAT THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT IS DOING IS WRONG WHY NOT THEY RANDY ABBEY TO COURT? HR WHO ALEDGIES MUST PROVE IT IN COURT

  • Kwame 3 months ago

    Ghana is not sick in this matter. This Fiifi Boafo lied.
    All his allegations were not true.
    He had an opportunity to work there on political appointment, not on merit. Now he thinks he knows better than everyone else.

  • Goodwill 3 months ago

    What is the meaning of this,are you terminating their appointment or what?let them know .More problems awaits COCOBOD.

  • Ike 3 months ago

    This is willfully causing financial loss to the state.
    Why do you pay two people for the same position.

  • Nkum 3 months ago

    What do you do with Directors who run the COCOBOD down? In private circles, they would have been fired!

  • Kankam 3 months ago

    So the best option is to let them stay home with whiles receiving their fat salaries and then engage party sycophants who also receive unwarranted salaries causing huge financial burden and loss to the state? Are you party pe ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 3 months ago

    @ Nkum
    No serious minded corporate body would employ someone like Randy Abbey as its CEO in the first.This is bcoz there are serious question marks about his certificates. His own Accra Aca won't give him that job.

  • Kotibrim 3 months ago

    Nkwasias3m, he's ina few months been able to double the income of cocobod so what in hell is your broke and corrupt ass saying? Akronfuor abusuafuor!!!

  • Dear NPP bookmark. Time will tell 3 months ago

    Dear NPP kindly bookmark every NDC government official, NDC police and NDC judges who are politically doing this unlawful arrests of civilians, mark them. When power changes they will have to be removed from their job and be ...
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  • FIFI BOAFO EXPOSED. HERE ARE THE FACTS 3 months ago

    1. Vincent Okyere Akomeah
    Role. Director ; Country Of Residence. Ghana ; Nationality. Ghanaian ; Date of Birth. February 1969 ; Occupation. Managing Director.
    Age :56;

  • Bazz 3 months ago

    This fiifi Npp Pig, he is showing his bitterness

  • Kk 3 months ago

    They are enemies of the nation so we don't need them. Well done Randy. Why should cocoboard be making lose. Randy well done

  • SAM 3 months ago

    WE CALL IT MANDATORY VACATION....THIS IS ALSO DONE TO CHECK FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES.

  • Mr Ibu 3 months ago

    All of them have to be cleared. Investigations are ongoing on several procurement bridges and malfeasance. Since investigations are ongoing they are still entitled to their salaries but work must continue so there's need for ...
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  • Kankam 3 months ago

    There's the need for people to fill the gaps which are unnecessarilly uneconomically created for double salaries to paid for one job? Are you sick or serious, come on. You people will continue to burn. Worse will happen to y ...
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  • Kwaku 3 months ago

    15 years of experience!? And they collectively allowed the Cocoa industry to come to such a poor financial pass? The figures are a debacle. Let them stay home till the institution starts to heal. Then they can return lower ra ...
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  • Kankam 3 months ago

    ..at the cost of the state? You people are just mad and forgetful.

  • Mims 3 months ago

    Together we call it good news

  • EBO 3 months ago

    When Fiifi Boafo was appointed as the Head of Public Affairs by Boahene Aidoo, had he worked at Cocoa Board for Fifteen years? There were people there who had been there with all the institutional memory but were shunted asid ...
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  • fori 3 months ago

    that's just one side of the story. the full story is that with the high kevel of corruption at cocobod, this is the best decision ever ever! if the directors are so competent, why is cocobod failing and on its knees?

  • NPP WAS DOING WORSE 3 months ago

    NPP WAS DOING WORSE. SHUT THE UP AND SWALLOW THE BITTER PILL. NPP DID NOT EVEN EMPLOY ANYONE WHO WAS NOT ASHANTI. MAHAMA AND NDC HAVE EMPLOYED ALL TRIBES.
    SHUT THE UP, YOU LIAR!

  • Dan 3 months ago

    Both parties do same.. sad as this news is, it's unfortunate that both parties do the same thing... Check cocobod records, the former government did the same..it's a sad reality

  • Sam 3 months ago

    Others were removed for this Fifi Boafo idiot to take up that position, today he is crying when he never saw anything wrong then.
    Nonsense!!

  • Arkhosua 3 months ago

    A director was sent home for you, an unqualified fellow to take his place. That was the first time such a thing happened in COCOBOD. What you set in motion is in motion. Enjoy the fruits of your greed and lack of national vis ...
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  • PETE AMSTERDAM 3 months ago

    I AGREE WITH WITH THEIR SUSPENSION, COCOABOARD HAS BEEN THERE FOR DECADES BUT, INDEBTNES HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE ORDER OF THE DAY.
    THERE SHOULD BE SOME HARSH MESURES TO TACLE THE SITUATION.

  • Streatham 3 months ago

    The answer is privatisation. Split it up and privatise it or you will have the same situation with the next government. Such a vital commodity should not be a game with governments and tribes. Should be sorted out once and fo ...
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  • Pris 3 months ago

    SEE THIS FOOL.....YOU WANT THE DIRECTORS WHO RUN THE COMPANY AND INCURED SOO MUCH LOSSES FOR THE COMPANY TO REMAIN THERE AND DESTROY IT THE MORE???

  • Kaba 3 months ago

    Were they not the people running the board before it collapsed?

  • J 3 months ago

    Don't be fooled by NDC propaganda and lies,COCOBOD Financial position @ 2024 was far better than @ 2016.They intentionally started those lies to allow them do what they are engaging in.I pity our cocoa farmers.

  • DEEVINITY 3 months ago

    Let's conduct a comparative performance audit based on the numbers for the last eight years with emphasis on the last 4 years and juxtapose them with the previous 4 years. People, for their own good, should learn to shut up w ...
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  • Kaklo 3 months ago

    Whistler blower or in pains??

  • Godfather 3 months ago

    This fiifi Boafo guy amassed wealth unimaginable at cocoboard and they are not investigating him..with 8 years the houses the cars hes got, his wife herrrr hmmm

  • The wise one 3 months ago

    It is even a mistake that you fiifi is still there at cocoboard,okay , foolish was it not some directors that was sacked before they NPP affiliated got that chance?

  • Mental charter 3 months ago

    Were u not working at Oman fm before that luxurious job at cocobod. We hardly heard you talk in public. Keep quiet

  • MARY MAVIS GYAMFIWAA 3 months ago

    John Mahama is gone to Japan to beg for money to come and pay people irresponsibly and illegally sent home without working, and yet receiving salaries.

  • Wisdom 3 months ago

    Why the cry Fifi Boafo should shut up.
    When Npp was in power and was the spokesperson for the institution and was sacking people and prosecution left right center, where was he to asked why they are doing that,today ha has a ...
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  • Koby from tema 3 months ago

    Really, something dont add up here. All of them in their mid 40's, and be working for 15 to 25 years really? What level did they dot into cocobod and what level where they placed as such institution have a minimum of 5years o ...
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  • Gbeze Gbormita 3 months ago

    With all their experiences and during their tenure COCOBOD transformed from a Cash Cow to a Bleeding Buffalo.

    You cannot keeping the same old minds and transform the ailing COCOBOD. We need fresh ideas from young and activ ...
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  • RANDY ABBEY IS PREPARING FOR A GRAND COCOBOD HEIST !OF THE TAXPAYERS MONEY 3 months ago

    Its either someone is prepared to sell him some over inflated low quality chemicals (aka Opuni and Adongo Grand Heist), or they are preparing to take a huge loan and a cut from it. Reason why he has removed the finance and le ...
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  • Why this criticism? 3 months ago

    If it's true story then I support the decision of the CEO. How can you Manager COCOBOD and cause the sector into shameless sector
    We the cocoa farmers are suffering because of those so called Directors. U turn COCOBOD into ...
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  • Mus 3 months ago

    Most of the public service directors are head deep into politics. Stop deceiving yourself. We need this directive in the lands and forestry sectors as well.

  • Arafat Husain. 3 months ago

    If what Fiifi Board is saying is true then Randy Abbey will go to jail if npp come to power we don't know why Mahama have appreciated that guy he is taking cocobod back he must be sacked

  • Virus 3 months ago

    How can a director who is 40 years work for 25 years in an institution, is boafo telling us the person finished sch at age 15.... am not saying nobody can be a director of a company at the age of 40. But....

  • TRUTH 3 months ago

    Truth be told that this civil servant’s who are shouting loud on top of the roof are all involved in all sorts of corrupt act. They aided and abetted with NPP corrupt politicians to ripped and destroy the Cocoa sector. They ...
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  • Kotibrim 3 months ago

    They're being investigated for the abysmal performance of cocobod in the past eight years!!!

  • Kofi 3 months ago

    This is Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo's style of governance and it's very bad

  • Kotibrim 3 months ago

    Fooooooooool!!!

  • Kwame 3 months ago

    An idiot of man who was politically employed now feels sense of ownership and thinks that Cocobod was made for him and knows better than anyone.