President Akufo-Addo has assured cocoa farmers of his government’s support for the cash crop farmers in the next season.
Addressing the nation in his last but one constitutional State of the Nation address on the floor of parliament on Tuesday, February 27, President Akufo-Addo lauded his administration’s increment in the cocoa price per bag from GHc800 to GHc1,300.
“Mr Speaker, we all witnessed the spectacular increment of the cocoa price from eight hundred cedis per bag (GH¢800) to one thousand, three hundred cedis (GH¢1,300) per bag in the current cocoa season, the highest increase in fifty (50) years.
“With the current trend of the world cocoa price, cocoa farmers can be sure that I will do right by them in the next cocoa season,” said President Akufo-Addo.
In the area of digitalisation, President Akufo-Addo stressed that the country is currently ranked number one in West Africa and seventh in Africa as far as e-governance is concerned.
“Ghana is making giant strides in the area of digitalisation thereby improving transparency, accountability and efficiency in the public sector and accelerating the growth of our economy,” said President Akufo-Addo.
The President also maintained that digitalisation in the country’s health sector has afforded hospitals across the country the ability to share medical records of patients digitally.
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“We have also networked all teaching, regional and district hospitals and patients records can easily be accessed in hospitals without the need for a folder”, he stated.
President Akufo-Addo also noted that the Vice President, Dr Bawumia, will in the coming days, launch a performance tracker for Ghanaians to track government projects.
He said, “This is a digitalization government, and the man who is leading this, my indefatigable vice president, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr Digitalisation, the NPP’s excellent presidential candidate for the 2024 elections is coming up with what will allow everybody to check on every project being undertaken by the government without having to listen to the president address, this is the performance tracker.
“Never again will pictures of artistic impressions of projects will be presented as projects completed.”
