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Ex-COCOBOD chiefs finally face criminal investigations - Report

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  • Yaw 1 day ago

    Diverting attention after falling to pay the cocoa farmers, shame.

  • NO FATHER FOR ALL....THEY ARE ORGANISED CRIMINALS 1 day ago

    The problem now is the Judges. They should show love for Ghana ....and help with the resetting.....No mercy for CRIMINALS.

    They enriched their families and render the rest of us poor.

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  • Randy Abby Is A Jail Candidate 23 hours ago

    NDC is a complete scam. You set free Opuni who looted billions because he funded Mahama’s campaign. Ghanaians are smarter now and knows the thief Randy Abby stakes lotto with cocoa farmers monies. Current managers of cocobo ...
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  • Abu 23 hours ago

    Nonsense. AG and NDC can’t prosecute anyone. Even Opuni, Duffour, Collins Dauda and co are walking freely.

  • Frank 23 hours ago

    Is this the ndc justification for failing to pay cocoa farmers?? Next joke please

  • Boye 22 hours ago

    The economy is crumbling under this thieves in power. Randy is looting but wants to blame others.

  • Vasco 5 hours ago

    Yes, you're on point. Aban foo bɛn ni?

  • Johnny 23 hours ago

    Does it mean the previous Mgt Debt they left behind prevented Randy Abbey & his Mgt from doing Forward sales or Hedging of our 2025 Cocoa beans? When you accept positions that you're not fit for you will fail.

  • Onua 1 day ago

    Please, bring out all those wicked criminals who took our $350 million dollars and said they were going to carry out a cocoa rehabilitation exercise, but ended up doing only 40% of the job and pocketed the rest of our monies. ...
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  • Collins Dauda took 200 million dollars for 5000 houses but bulit only 1100 uncomlpeted houses 22 hours ago

    Where is the rest of the money, yet is walking free.

  • Onua 1 day ago

    Please,, bring out all those wicked NPP Cocobod criminals who took our $350 million dollars and said they were going to carry out a cocoa rehabilitation exercise, but ended up doing only 40% of the job and pocketed the rest o ...
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  • RANDY IS PROTECTING JOSPONG at COCOBOD 23 hours ago

    This RANDY ABBEY Idiot and OFOSU AMPOFO are Covering-Up and Protecting JOSPONG and Joseph Osei-Aidoo at COCOBOD. Ghana is doomed forever

  • TRUTH BE TOLD 20 hours ago

    NDC PROMISED TRIBUNALS TO EXPEDITE CASES BUT AFTER BEING IN GOVERNMENT NEARLY ONE AND HALF YEARS, THEY HAVE NOT DELIVERED ON THAT PROMISE'S AND WASTING TIME AS IF THEY HAVE 20 YEARS TO BE IN GOVERNMENT.

  • XYZ 23 hours ago

    No father for all, if judges behaved the way you want them to behave now, your Ato Forson should have been in jail by now. The fact that politicians accused their opponents as criminals doesn't mean they are criminals until a ...
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  • Tumi Wura 22 hours ago

    Joseph Boahen Aidoo Kromfuor! So you quietly stole a BMW car to your house for all these months, only to return it quietly after the alarm has been blown on you. Huuuuuuuu..... animguase akwaaba!

  • Jojo 17 hours ago

    Bastards! NPP never never again! Everyone is just sick and tired about their looting. What a group of thieves who gathered together to form a political party.They have no shame in them at all. Hell will be too cool for all th ...
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  • Bukyi 17 hours ago

    How do you want the judges to show love if there is no wrong doing?

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  • Capricorn 23 hours ago

    Mr Siaw Agyapong is involved in every corrupt business in Ghana. Anywhere there's multiple underdeal, Zoomlion Boss is always found

  • Stefano 23 hours ago

    Big issues are there to discuss, Mr fool. Who said money hasn’t been released for payment to cocoa farmers?

  • Test2 23 hours ago

    GHANA THE UNCIVILIZED BACKWARD DISHONEST COUNTRY IS FULL OF CRIMINALS CALLING THEMSELVES ELITES

  • Test2 23 hours ago

    YOUR TRIBES PEOPLE HAVE STOLEN 32BL CEDIS WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE USED TO PAY THE FARMERS
    KWASIA BUSH MAN

  • Nkwa Kwame 22 hours ago

    @Yaw stop it. I guess you must still be suffering from post 2024 NPP elections loss syndrome. Instead of educating the Farmers on how Cocoa pricing is arrived at you are here trying to cash in politically on a situation that ...
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  • MO KWAME NKRUMAH NO 21 hours ago

    Yaw, do you understand the meaning of financial irregularities is ?Think deep and answer your self the meaning of financial irregularities is, do you understand the amount which has been misappropriated at the cocoa board ...
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  • Nana addo 21 hours ago

    Waste of time. They won’t be able to prosecute anyone until change of government. Banana republic country

  • TRUTH BE TOLD 20 hours ago

    NONSENSE AND STUPID TO SAY RANDY IS DIVERTING ATTENTION.
    MY WORRY WITH IS THAT THE TALK IS TOO MUCH. JUST THROW THOSE MOTHERFUCKER TO JAIL WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.

  • THE CRIMINAL NETWORK 19 hours ago

    JOHN MAHAMA puts his Family Friend RANDY ABBEY at COCOBOD. RANDY is a friend to JOSPONG and OSEI-AIDOO. The President again appointed SAMUEL OFOSU-AMPOFO as Board Chairman of Cocobod. Ofosu-Ampofo and JOSPONG are also bosom f ...
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  • DDEP 17 hours ago

    Randy will definitely answer more questions in future

  • Ebenezer Ayim 17 hours ago

    I fully understand how NPP thinks, everything must be free in a way that,the government must borrow to make the cocoa farmers happy while the schools suffer so that NPP will have something to campaign with,it won't work this ...
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  • John Mahama 17 hours ago

    right

  • Bismarck 17 hours ago

    What is there to be diverted. Ghana is paying GHS2,500 and Ivory Coast is paying GHS1,200. I doubt if our farmers will be smuggling to Cote d'ivore. Ask your criminals to avail themselves quickly for answering

  • John 17 hours ago

    Tribunals, tribunals and tribunals are what Ghanaians are waiting for JDM to set up to jail all these criminals.Nothing more nothing less. There should be a system that should send them to courts daily for early prosecution. ...
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  • Gbaza Dziwornu 16 hours ago

    WHAT ABOUT OPUNI AND HIS GANG? Eiiiii NDC, OWN GOALS, DUMB DAFT DECISIONS.

    LOOK AT WHAT WICKED NDC IS ATTEMPTING TO DO JUST TO COVER AND SAVE WEAK, EMPTY AND INEXPERIENCED EMMANUEL “RANDY” ABBEY? JUST STOP THE NONSENS ...
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  • Gov 1 1 day ago

    where is opuni. idioooot

  • Nana 1 day ago

    John Dramani Mahama is just a Disgrace. Typical of NDC . Randy Abbey will disgrace him the more

  • agyeman 1 day ago

    WHAT ABOUT CRIMINAL OPUNI. MAKE SURE OPUNI IS ROPED IN IMMEDIATELY. HIS CASE IS EVEN WORSE THAN THE AFOREMENTIONED.

  • Game Changer +447935009178 1 day ago

    @agyeman, your useless NPP spent 8yrs on Opuni and couldn't jail him. Go and ask Akufo Addo why Opuni wasn't jailed.

  • agyeman 22 hours ago

    STILL ROPE IN THE BIG CROOK OPUNI

  • Adamafio 1 day ago

    JOHN MAHAMA IS A WICKED MAN.IF IT IS GOOD FOR HIM TO REDUCE THE PRICE OF COCOA , THEN HE SHOULD HAVE REDUCE THE SALARY OF OF THOSE THIEVES WORKING AT COCOBOD ALSO....

  • Cat 1 day ago

    Ohhhhhhh.....with all your mony u are still trying to .........a car. Awwwwww mother ghana.

  • Sam Young 1 day ago

    Hmm, miracles and oponhkurumah, you see what you have done? These guys were lying cool. Nuw you have stired up dust.

  • Jospong group is a criminal company. 1 day ago

    Jospong group is a bad meat for Ghana.This group pretend to help us but rather killing us . The owner is a real politician cover up with bible and looting from Ghanians in the name of business. Ghanaians wake up .This are the ...
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  • Stefano 23 hours ago

    That man always help the NPP to loot the nation and he gets his shares very well.

  • Outlaw 1 day ago

    Anyone with a half a brain can quickly realise this all smoke and screen and that nothing positive will come out of this investigations.

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  • KWASI IN EUROPE 1 day ago

    So you use a car for only 2 years and you can buy it at a cheap price? No wonder Randy Abbey, the current CEO, ran quickly to buy brand new SUVs and distribute them like kelewele to his friends. Oh, Ghana.

  • KWASI IN EUROPE 1 day ago

    These guys think Ghanaians are fools and we don't know their stupidity.

  • Sense 1 day ago

    Npp is criminal organization

  • Eric 1 day ago

    The investigation should start from 2012 to 2024 nonsense

  • Jay 1 day ago

    Nation wreckers

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  • Jimbo 23 hours ago

    If the NDC left a debt of Ghs19 billion when they were leaving office in 2017, then, out of the Ghs32.91 billion, they created a bigger debt than the NPP. If that is true, then the investigation will unravel very interesting ...
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  • KG 23 hours ago

    NDC TACKTICS. BECAUSE YOU COULD NOT OUR COCOA FARMERS YOU ARE NOW LOOKING FOR SCAPEGOATS. WHERE DID RANDY ABBEYS ADMINISTRATIN GOT MONEY TO REHABILITATAE HIS HOUSE AT CANTOMENTS? IN 2012 WHEN MAHAMA WAS LEAVING OFFICE, DO YOU ...
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  • Kofi BA 23 hours ago

    Comedians in power. If you appoint a common soccer commentator to head a very important state agency like the COCOBOD, what can we expect?

  • Bright 22 hours ago

    @Kofi Ba, are you not aware that most soccer commentators are professionals in other fields like Banking,Oil and Gas, Lecturers and some Lawyers who simply love the game of football and Randy is just one of them. By the way a ...
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  • Truth 23 hours ago

    No excuse to our hardworking cocoa farmers shall be accepted. Please, don't manufacture one.

  • Komfo Kwaa’ante 23 hours ago

    Cocobod, first and foremost, should be run by farmers or their educated children. The managers of Cocobod have to have some sensitivity to the stakeholders of the cocoa industry. I bet my bottom dollar that there are official ...
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  • Hackman Owusu Agyemang 23 hours ago

    Why didn't you suggest this when Akufo Monkey Addo was in power?

  • Kaakeiku 21 hours ago

    May God forgive you for insulting an aged

  • Yaa 19 hours ago

    @Hackman Owusu Agyemang (God forgive you for hiding behind this name), if you know how to read and keep up with news you will know that the former Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, was born into cocoa f ...
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  • Citizen8 23 hours ago

    Diversionary tactics.

  • Nana Aba 23 hours ago

    So Randy Abbey was working for Jospong. The same people all over the place. This is why Randy cannot investigate Jospong Group of Companies. This Jospong is a big crock. Randy Abbey was the wrong person for Cocobod. Crocks al ...
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  • Sense 23 hours ago

    This NPP fool called Afriyie Aryee who owns this website now is so dumb that he thinks his stupidity will win power for npp, why is ghanaweb is showing the current CEO picture among the criminals here in the story

  • Alex Owusu 23 hours ago

    The former Cocoboard CEO is the cause of the problems the cocoa sector is facing .He must be made to account for all the stolen monies under his reign .

  • Abu 23 hours ago

    Much ado about nothing..

  • JDM 23 hours ago

    Opuni come screw us he was left of the hook!! these people to come screw us lets see the out come!! ky3r3saa ghana dieaaa oooh daabi! this one to no go anywhere!!

  • Abrewa 23 hours ago

    Randy Abbey is just fighting to keep his job! He is over 50 years and this is his last chance to milk! so he is fighting tooth and nail to stay in the juicy job! if he loses this job he is fucked! Nothing for him! so so mouth ...
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  • AMARIYA 22 hours ago

    CASH COW TO BOARD's CHIEFS

    They should go all way back to Dr. Opuni. Whose tenure at the board was marked by his filthy ostentatious life-style. They have all milked this cash-cow.

  • Koo 22 hours ago

    Is opuni part of them

  • Kofi 22 hours ago

    "Abaaa yede bo Takyi yede bebo Baah debi"
    Eeii Hon Boahen Aidoo is now returning his car, why? He wanted to purchase, when he denied Dr Opuni his right to purchase his own.

  • Karma 22 hours ago

    THE BLAME GAMES :
    The blame games have already started but the current CEO Randy Abbey is simply incompetent to manage that institution so he needs to be kicked out immediately without any compromise.
    He has no vision, no ...
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  • Yoo 21 hours ago

    I feel sorry for Randy Abbey. He would never know peace in his life, when there is change of Government. He is simply being unwise. He should by now know that the indemnity clause still sitting in Ghana's Constitution will p ...
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  • Kooo 21 hours ago

    It’s now cooking… nobody shd complain of witch hunting oo

  • Kaakeiku 21 hours ago

    Face saving move. Smh

  • TRUST IN THE LORD 21 hours ago

    Returning the vehicle alone doesn’t erase the dishonest appropriation of the state property for 14 months.
    He needs to be investigated if the facts as outlined in this article points to the realities.
    When the elements ...
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  • African and God grace 21 hours ago

    Nothing will happen they will pay politician .lawyer.judges and keep the loot .
    African big thieves of the political type in ghana do not go to prison..just talk talk and hoax .
    New thief can't prosecute old thieves

  • Adusa 21 hours ago

    That's all we get. Useless government who cannot prosecute even the blatantly corrupt

  • Baga 21 hours ago

    Is he going to pay for using the car the it was in his possession?
    Who made that stupid law allowing over two years car to be purchased by users if they are leaving office? What is wrong with our leadership it's only in Gh ...
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  • Jude 21 hours ago

    Ghana's political appointees are THIEVES. The former CEO of Cocoabod must be surcharged for the use of the BMW. In addition he must be charged to court for stealing.

  • JJ KUFFOUR AKUFO ADDO 21 hours ago

    Hope it doesn't end here.

  • Jay Swiss 21 hours ago

    Send them to prison if they don’t provide evidence! These cases look like an elementary school teacher‘s story. Why is the government still playing around with these vivid criminal cases? Ofori Atta is nothing here compar ...
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  • Kofi 21 hours ago

    Why closing Agogo / Opuni case and start another one? Is it criminal or political

  • Yaa 19 hours ago

    Ask oooooo ask!

  • Kuds Gbate 21 hours ago

    Shame on the John Mahama Administration. This is all diversionary tactics to attempt to deflect the enormous pressure on the government following the reduction in the price of cocoa.
    Since when has it become procedural to s ...
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  • True Ghanaian 21 hours ago

    Charge him for daily rental of the vehicle over the 14 months

  • Ibrahim Troure 21 hours ago

    Ghana isn't going nowhere, with the amount of stealing from officials, we need Ibrahim Troure type of Government, NOW,!!!!!!! . COUP DETAT.

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 20 hours ago

    DUE TO PUBLIC OUTCRY. MAHAMA IS SO WEAK

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 20 hours ago

    WHAT DOES NPP IDIOTS WANT FROM OPUNI?. 8 GOOD YEARS YOU COULD NOT PROSECUTE HIM

  • Kalu 20 hours ago

    We are not small boys and girls in this country. You Just want to do this to deceive the farmers. Twwwwiiiiiiii

  • Fofie 19 hours ago

    There NO SCANDAL in Ghana without zoomlion involvement. What is really happening in Ghana? Every single state scandal has zoomlion involved. That is concerning

  • Yaa 19 hours ago

    Nansins. This audit is going to be what, an investigation into Joseph Boahen Aidoo's official car????

    Tweeeeeaaaa..... Ampa, NDC fuor. You think Ghanaians are fools? PAY THE COCOA FARMERS WHAT YOU PROMISED THEM! If yu no f ...
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  • Joe 19 hours ago

    Rejecting pruners was a crime then Randy you're already in jail, because the Cocoa farmers has rejected you 2500 cedis offer.
    The education minister should report himself to the police immediately because those over rated p ...
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  • Hajia 19 hours ago

    You are going after the wrong person. The person you should be pursuing is Fiifi boafo. He was the lead criminal and the mastermind of all Cocoboard's lot. Fiifi who couldn't even afford to fuel his rickety car while st Oms ...
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  • Kay 19 hours ago

    I wonder why Randy was trying to shield this criminals until he got exposed.

  • Kwame Peter 18 hours ago

    They should ust pay the farmers first then throw them into Randy Abbey's Korle Lagoon if they wish,Ghanaians still have their eyes on the ball no matter what.

  • Kofi 18 hours ago

    These criminals and thieves are still enjoying their freedom why?

  • Talk true 18 hours ago

    Good Ghana are we serious hmmm

  • AK 18 hours ago

    Is that the reason why COCOBOD is not paying cocoa farmers? The farmers have been thrown into abject poverty and COCOBOD is going around giving flimsy excuses for non-payment.

  • Yaa Dua 18 hours ago

    Criminal activities have been made so attractive in every phase of life with such impunity
    Who can bring to book? The Criminal activities of these people?

  • DDEP 17 hours ago

    Randy just do your job but ensure that your records are clean before you leave office

  • Kwaku Mensah 17 hours ago

    Political gymnastics. Debt means monies that has been taken away or what. Randy should work and stop this incompetence attitude. 14 months now that you have seen that the car is missing.What sort of management are you. Opuni ...
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  • Kb 17 hours ago

    To this coconut head ndc party think they can use this asinine investigation to cover their mess.

  • Naana Aba 17 hours ago

    All these people nothing will happen to them. Mark me word. The AG cannot secure convictions for any of these people. They are gone with their loot. See ORAL, is useless as for OSP the least said about the institution the be ...
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  • Koppong 17 hours ago

    Public officials stop this practice of buying govt vehicles go to the dealer and buy

  • Naana Aba 17 hours ago

    All these people nothing will happen to them. Mark my word. The AG cannot secure convictions for any of these people. They are gone with their loot. See ORAL, is useless as for OSP the least said about the institution the be ...
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  • Pelicles. 17 hours ago

    Stop being emotional because the courts deal with "Facts and evidence". What goes on in the media and public perceptions are not admissible in any court anywhere in the world.

    What did NDC and the OSP tell Ghanaians about ...
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  • Thief Afenyo Markin 17 hours ago

    I have started a campaign against AFENYO MARKIN and will continue until I see him go to jail.

    Please president Mahama, if you want to have a legacy, then you better jail all these NPP thief's, otherwise you'll never have ...
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  • Kwame Ampofo 17 hours ago

    Nonsense, where is Opuni.
    This is political gimmicks to detract from your incompetence leading to the reduction in cocoa prices for the farmers.
    Was it not the NDC, government that filed for Nolle Prosecure, for the Opuni ...
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  • Pelicles. 17 hours ago

    How did Emmanuel Abbey become Randy Abbey, and when did he swear an affidavit of change of name? Emmanuel (Randy) Abbey was a carrier criminal who was dismissed from West Africa Secondary School for thievery. He then enrolled ...
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  • Bukyi 17 hours ago

    It will amount to nothing.
    This is to cover the abysmal performance of the CEO and in extension the president.

  • seriously? 16 hours ago

    by force prosecution! Randy Abbey's incompetence will be prosecuted in due course

  • Kwame panin 16 hours ago

    Randy is trying to hide his incompetence

  • Francis B. 16 hours ago

    Just to divert attention from the harm they have done to cocoa farmers in the country. Since NDC has stopped prosecuting its members who were standing trial of various criminal offenses, they have no moral right to prosecut ...
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  • Jackson 16 hours ago

    Let’s get serious in this country. We look at Singapore or China or visit Dubai and wonder how they developed so rapidly. You cannot get away with the rampant corruption in Ghana over there. Where are the Fast Track courts ...
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  • Frank 15 hours ago

    We are in iteresting times in Ghana. A government who is desperate to persecute his political opponents

    But the same old story they would persecute you the media. Then.when they go to they have no evidence to proof their ...
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  • Zelda 15 hours ago

    What about Dr Opuni

  • Nipa Nua 14 hours ago

    This Elder of Church of Pentecost and owner of Jospong and Zoomlion de3, every corruption related issue in Ghana biaaa he's part. Kai

  • King 14 hours ago

    Good news

  • Atsu 2 hours ago

    Go pay the farmers and stop your nonsense. Ghanaians are not ignorant as you think

  • Roadrunner 5 minutes ago

    It's about time,that those individuals have come to front investigation for alleged
    Misappropriation of the COCOBOD FINANCES