🇬🇭 Ghana could reclaim full control of one of Africa’s largest open-pit gold mines.
Ghana is considering handing control of the massive Tarkwa mine from Gold Fields, a globally diversified gold producer, to local companies when its mining leases expire next year.
@barkervogues@KayMedia_ hmmm! Bongo Ideas who is the chief of publication of false news is even free and dining with cabinet ministers of this ndc government. hmmm
Hon. @FAnnohDompreh presents THE WORLD CUP MATCH SERIES;
Join us on 17th June as we come together to cheer the black stars as they play against Panama.
Venue: Nsawam lorry station
Fee: FREE
PART 1 of 4: THE HIRED PEN AND THE MISSING GHc39 BILLION COCOA MONEY
Somewhere in Ghana tonight, a cocoa farmer is staring at a room full of beans he cannot sell, waiting for money he has not received since October 2025, calculating losses on a price cut that has no precedent in one hundred years of cocoa history, and Kay Codjoe is quoting Schopenhauer.
This is where we are.
This is what the COCOBOD Files have produced.
Seven parts announced. Philosophers deployed. Pinocchio measured. persistence investigated. NPP founding fathers summoned from the grave. Accountability chains constructed with architectural precision. De Tocqueville consulted. Sir Walter Scott recruited. @lordcudjoe nodding approvingly from somewhere nearby.
And the farmer is still in that room. With those beans. Waiting.
Now. Before i proceed to the substance of this piece, and there is devastating substance, let us address the matter of the hired pen. Because Kay Codjoe has spent considerable energy being offended by that description. He has written paragraphs about it. He has measured Pinocchio inches over it. He has quoted Sir Walter Scott's tangled web in its direction.
Which tells you everything.
Because when a writer produces a seven-part forensic series about COCOBOD's finances, and across every installment, every exchange, every philosophical citation, never once calls on the government he is writing about to pay 800,000 farmers who have not been paid since October 2025, the question of who commissioned the pen is not an insult.
It is a forensic observation.
A free pen writes about the farmer.
A hired pen writes around him.
Kay Codjoe has written around him with big grammar, considerable vocabulary, and the complete bibliography of Western philosophy.
The farmer is still in the room. The pen has been hired. The evidence is the silence.
LET US TALK ABOUT GH¢39 BILLION:
Because Kay Codjoe loves numbers. He has dedicated a significant portion of his adult life this year to numbers. He arranges them as he pleases, forgetting that, numbers don’t lie. He sequences them dramatically. He presents them with the solemn authority of a man who has personally counted every cedi and found it guilty.
So Kay, here is a number for your next installment.
GH¢39 billion.
That is what COCOBOD collected in revenue in 2025. Not according to NPP propaganda. Not according to miracle narratives. According to Ato Forson. The NDC's own Finance Minister. The man your government appointed to count the money.
GH¢39 billion came in.
GH¢26 billion is the debt you have been weeping about across seven installments.
Which means, and please follow this carefully because the arithmetic is admittedly complex, you collected thirteen billion cedis more than the debt you inherited.
Thirteen. Billion. Cedis. More.
And the farmer has not been paid since October 2025.
Now. A free pen, an independent, unencumbered, genuinely forensic pen, would have seen that GH¢39 billion figure and immediately asked: where did it go? Why has the farmer not been paid? How does a system collect thirty-nine billion cedis and still find no money for the people who grew the cocoa?
A hired pen sees GH¢39 billion and writes Part Four about procurement chains from 2019.
We see you, Kay.
So before Part Four of the COCOBOD Files arrives, before another philosopher is consulted, before another accountability chain is mapped, before another inch is added to my Pinocchio nose, perhaps the hired pen could explain, in plain Ghanaian English, what happened to GH¢39 billion.
Did it evaporate? Did it travel abroad for further studies? Did it attend a conference it has not returned from?
Where is the money, Kay?
NB:
Before Part 4 of the COCOBOD Files arrives, we have a table for Kay Codjoe. No philosophers needed. Just two columns. Two governments. Two very different choices. The table that cannot be written away, coming in Part 2.
On Thursday, June 11, I led a delegation of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to a productive consultative meeting with the leadership of the Christian Council of Ghana.
The discussions focused on Ghana’s development, National unity, and shared progress. We reaffirmed the NPP’s commitment to sustained engagement with religious bodies as key partners in promoting peace, inclusivity and prosperity for all Ghanaians.
We are deeply grateful to the Council for the warm reception and valuable insights shared. Together, we are moving forward!
A highly productive morning engagement with the British High Commissioner to Ghana at his residence in Accra!
Our discussion highlighted a solid legacy of partnership and a shared vision for Ghana's next chapter. Through the UK-Ghana Business Council, which I co-chaired as Vice President, our strategic collaboration unlocked major investments that successfully delivered critical infrastructure.
I am particularly grateful to the High Commissioner for his kind words, commending our commitment to elevating the political space by prioritizing robust, policy-driven discussions over the politics of personal attacks.
Busted‼️‼️
The lady who coined the 1:3:3 formula which was used to scam the youth on the 24hr economy explanation is on the list of the 808 presidential staffers.
She is number 127
Hon. Frank Annoh-Dompreh has donated GH¢208,745 from his Common Fund allocation to support the expansion of the Nsawam Government Hospital OPD, improving healthcare delivery for thousands of residents.
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