The NDPC website have been down for a couple of weeks now? @Attaanii sir this is for your attention

The bankruptcy is in your comparison of an MP's personal project and a national policy

ON COCOA -------------------- 1. The unprecedented two-year cocoa price windfall of 2023–2025 driven by a poor crop, and which resulted in a record 40-year rally whereby international markets exceeded $10,000 per tonne, has ended --- see chart below. The cocoa market is highly likely to experience significant correction and reversion to lower, albeit still elevated levels of about $3,500-$4000 per tonne for rest of the year 2026. 2. Credible burden-sharing across the cocoa system starts from the top. That is why 90% of the today’s gross FOB price announcement is being passed to farmers compared to 70% hitherto [see the August and October 2025 GoG announcements]. 3. Beyond this, rigorous COST RATIONALISATION at COCOBOD is key. The company must reduce its cost structure which includes: (a) review all compensation packages, allowances, and discretionary benefits including to senior management; (b) scrap quasi-fiscal spending like cocoa roads and cut back on non-essential spending, including travel; (c) channel additional savings into frontline farmer support and extension programmes that directly increase farm productivity and livelihoods. Some of these are being implemented as part of IMF programme structrural benchmarks. 3. The lesson that OIL & GAS, COCOA and GOLD - Ghana’s three exports by value - continue to constantly demonstrate is very simple: we cannot build a robust economy from exporting primary commodities as we’ve done the past 60 years. The real structural and productivity transformation of building and retaining more in-country value especially within agriculture/agri-services and manufacturing is imperative.

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Is there a reason I will never forgive Ken Ofori Atta? Here is it. I also lost GHS2000😒

Penyi-Tokor in the Volta Region being blessed by the angel called #BIGPUSH. #AbanPapaAba

Today, the team met with the Interministerial Committee tasked by President John Dramani Mahama to review the terrible NLA-KGL deal. We don’t just tell stories at @fourthestategh, we seek solutions.

Barnabas Nii Laryea writes and l totally agree with him. "THE FINANCIAL TRUTH Reading my brother Sir-Obama Pokuase love letter to the NPP this morning reopened wounds many of us have been quietly nursing, healing from small small. He speaks about how President Akufo-Addo kept Ken Ofori-Atta in power for almost his entire tenure, so entrenched that even a formal attempt by Members of Parliament to remove him could not soften the heart of Pharaoh. That episode alone is a reminder of leaders whose legacies will forever be defined by hardened hearts: leaders who act not by the will of the people, but by ego first, loyalty second, and country last. Ken Ofori-Atta started well. That much is fair. But he failed woefully at a critical point. Once you promise an entire country “we will not go to the IMF” and then walk into the IMF weeks later, you forfeit the credibility required to lead the very mess you created. That moment was a textbook example of how a ship can still avoid an iceberg, if only the captain is honest enough to call a spade a spade early. Then came the unforgivable part: the editing of Ghana’s sovereign bond agreements. Imagine institutional investors managing pension funds on behalf of 1,500 people; teachers, nurses, retirees, with clearly spelt-out terms and conditions. Now waking up to explain to them that coupons already earned cannot be paid because one man who insisted there would be no haircut now says the country must renegotiate. And all the while, the same lines kept echoing: 1. We are a Christian Nation 2. Ghana Beyond Aid 3. We will not go to the IMF 4. The DDEP is good for our country 5. The fundamentals of our economy are strong 6. This is a necessary sacrifice for economic recovery In the end, I watched my friends invited by banks, financial institutions to sit in meetings explaining why a ₵750,000 bond coupon someone had earned could not be paid. Government had decided to renegotiate. If you were never called, perhaps your coupon was too small. You didn’t matter enough in the scheme of things and would just not get any information. No one should invest in promises sold by their own government, only to be fed different stories at maturity. This is why some of us are still angry. Because unemployment, survival, dignity, are tied to these very schemes which are Legal, Sound, and at best Conservative. The same schemes pensioners rely on to live decent lives after decades of work. We cannot pretend this never happened. This country owes human beings a daily apology. Today feels different. Bonds that were once paid in the evening now arrive a day before maturity. Long may it continue. Today that pensioner who hurt his contemporaries does not want to return to the CHRISTIAN NATION #NFOAAAA

In all this, I agree with @BBSimons on classifying the reporting of our economic growth into gold and non-gold.

.@ecowas_cedeao cannot remain silent on whatever is going on in Nigeria. Any excalation will throw the entire fragile subregional balance out of whack.

CUT GOVERNOR ASIAMA SOME SLACK — CEDI’S STRENGTH BEYOND INJECTION KERFUFFLE In the 8 years of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia/NPP government, they injected a staggering $11 Billion into the forex market to stimulate and to stabilize the CEDI. Up to the end of 2022, over $7 Billion was injected and the remaining two years saw stimulation packages of $4.1 Billion. Averagely, the NPP government injected $1.39 Billion annually into the management of the Cedi. It was this phooey of an economic strategy that propelled Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to hysterically to infamously announce the “arrest of the dollar” and its “keys handed to the IGP”. If there was any political scam of the decade (2010-2020), that would have been it since the entire fabric of our lives depend on buying and selling. Despite these forceful injections through contracted loans from the Eurobond market, the desired outcome eluded the entire country. Disastriously, those committed loans were to be serviced with interest for years to come having lost the investments made with them. You would recall the NDC handed a rate of ¢3.2 to the NPP at the end of December 2016 yet their management rather festered the woes of the Cedi. On top of this was the inauguration of the 40-member committee tasked to fact-find the indicators behind the chaskele dance of the Cedi and the inordinate dwarfing of same. It then suffices to say, the erstwhile NPP government was very personal on the Ghanaian CEDI and its appreciation against major currencies. Regardless their efforts, the CEDI kept telling them they were not doing it right. YES! The economic management team was BOGUS! $11 Billion forex injections were BOGUS! 40-Member CEDI committee work was BOGUS! Bawumia’s economic wizardry and magic wand were BOGUS! And the Central Bank itself became BOGUS! With the above highlighted, the question then is, what is the Mahama/Nana Jane/NDC government doing that the NPP didn’t do having attempted all the strategies to strengthen the CEDI? That should be the question and stop underrating the work of Dr. Johnson Pandit Asiama and his team of experts at the Bank of Ghana. Cut him some slack! The mere injection of forex liquidity cannot stimulate nor stabilize the Cedi. If it does, then the NPP has to cough up our $11 Billion and answer pressing questions. Aside the injection — for nothing at all and to base on what is foreseeable — there is fiscal discipline, frugal expenditure, essential investments, prudent management and tactful monetary policy. These were missing key factors under the 8 years of the NPP! What we witnessed were the GH¢77 Billion freshly printed cash, luxurious and oligarchic lifestyle, reckless borrowing, maladministration, misgovernance and economic mismanagement. Thank God for the GoldBoD, the forex liquidity is not a loan that hangs as albatross around the neck of taxpayers. Whether it succeeds or not (far be it though), it has no future debt obligation on Ghanaians unlike the unthinkable $11 Billion the NPP took from the bond market. Christmas is coming and the injection could only be strategic. And again — not for what I can attest to — but for the past two decades, no government has managed the Cedi to appreciate than when it was inherited. Kufuor left it at ¢1.2 in December 2008 shortly after the redenomination. Under Mills in 2012, the rate was ¢1.8 When Mahama exited in January 2017, the rate was ¢3.2 Akufo-Addo left the aisle leaving it at ¢14.7 So yes, Mahama returning to power and overseeing the Cedi managed to 10.6 is not only a good news but unprecedented as well. There is no sloganeering, litanies of praises and sheer PR but the secrecy of the work is manifested in public. God bless Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, Dr. Johnson Asiama, Lawyer Sammy Gyamfi and the team that is working behind the scenes to put smiles on the faces of the ordinary Ghanaian. Aban Papa Aba!! #AbanPapaAba

We can see a clear effort by this govt to stabilize the cedi. Whether that effort will be sustainable remains to be seen, but the attempt is visible. We once asked NPP to do the same, and their response was that we should be grateful the NDC wasn’t in power.. LMAO

.@DStv_Ghana didnt just publicly humiliate the minister, they gave him 1 day to go around all the prime time programs to promote their new promotion for them for free @samgeorgegh if you have any hammer, this is the time to drop it. Because this is cannot end like this.

Its either Dzata doesnt understand the outcomes of engagements between dstv and the ministry or dstv just sets out to embarass the minister after he makes public statements. Eitherway one thing is clear @DStv_Ghana DO NOT respect @samgeorgegh one bit.

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Who made him president ?

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗦𝗧𝗩 𝗚𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗔 𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 🇬🇭 The DSTV pricing saga once again strongly reminds me of the need for Ghana to have an 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬. Such a body would have served a great purpose in unpacking DSTV Ghana's price build-up dynamics and checking any arbitrary behaviour. This is because I am inclined to believe it is not just a question of small market size in Ghana, FX or regulatory dynamics at play, but 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. This can be proven through proper competition economics/regulatory economics work. In March 2025, Nigeria's competition agency sued MultiChoice over price hikes. One measure used in regulatory economics is the 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗵𝗹-𝗛𝗶𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘅 (𝗛𝗛𝗜), a commonly accepted measure of market concentration used by regulators to monitor the distribution of market power. HHI is calculated based on an assessment of competitors’ market shares, enabling one to assess how the competitive landscape has evolved and is likely to change over time. Without working out the deep math, I would suspect DStv's HHI to probably be more than 0.70, indicating high market concentration and an almost near-monopoly structure. This would indicate 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 in that segment of the market, potentially justifying regulatory scrutiny or consumer protection interventions.

Names I have received from NPP in the past 6 months. I am counting till they reach 38 👏🏼👏🏼😋 1. Social Media Minister (Governance at your doorstep 2. Entertainment Minister (AshantiFest) 3. SRC Minister (Minister for the young people) 4. Sanitation day Minister (Keep Ashanti Clean) 5. Small boy Minister (Minister for the People) 6. Settings Minister (Maintaining a good brand & public appeal) 8. Blogger Minister (Keep the people informed) #active