Suaman District Chief Executive Warns Farmers and Youth Who Smuggled Cocoa to Cote D'Ivoire for Sale.
According to him, the new price for the 2022 cocoa season has angered some cocoa farmers to the extend that, they complain the price for the bag of cocoa is low, therefore in his opinion has gingered the farmers to smuggle their cocoa beans.
Richard Adu 
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Suaman in the Western North Region, Honourable Philip Kwabena Boahen, furiously has called on cocoa farmers in the Suaman District to be consiously disciplined and refrain from smuggling the commodity of cocoa beans to neighboring Cote D'Ivoire for sale.
According to him, the new price for the 2022 cocoa season has angered some cocoa farmers to the extend that, they complain the price for the bag of cocoa is low, therefore in his opinion has gingered the farmers to smuggle their cocoa beans.
The DCE in his displeasure stated how exasperated he is over the act of the farmers that had ensued to the youth and people of Suaman.
Honourable Philip added that, the government has putting in place adequate measures to abate unemployment through agricultural initiatives in the district, such as weeding gangs, plantain nursery projects, cocoa rehabilitation, amongst other job for the youth, but the smuggling situation will cease the agricultural benefits in the district.
He warned, "anyone caught in the act of smuggling cocoa would be termed as economic saboteur and would be made to face the full rigour of the law".
The District Chief Executive announced that there have been several appeal to the western north cocobod directorate but efforts to convince him were futile.
He therefore advised the Chiefs, opinion leaders, customs and immigration services living along the district's borders to arrest and report any exigency to preclude the future exacerbation.
Story by Opamago Paparichy.
