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NPP denies smuggling subsidized fertilizers

The Upper West Regional Youth Organiser of the NPP said the government is committed to all farmers and will ensure transparency in the distribution of the fertilizers

He said executives of the NPP have no knowledge about the disappearance of the bags of subsidised fertiliser.

"If the dealers are NPP members, they are Ghanaians and entitled to do business. Where the problem is is how to get the subsidised fertiliser to our people. That is our main concern as a government and as a political party," he told Accra-based Class FM.

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The president of the local chapter of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, Shiraz Jawol accused some members of the NPP in the Upper West Region of diverting  over 20,000 bags of subsidised fertilisers.

He said the fertilisers are smuggled to neighbouring Burkina Faso and sold for higher profit.

But the Upper West Regional Youth Organiser of the NPP said "I don’t know the people he [Shiraz Jawol] has pinpointed as sympathisers of the NPP who are the dealers of fertiliser. I know as a regional youth organiser, a member of the region and son of the region, I know the key distributors in the region. Those who actually receive the fertilisers from Accra are not sympathisers of NPP, but that is not our hurdle.

"Our hurdle is that 20,000 bags of fertiliser are supposed to come to the region to be given to our farmers but our investigations showed that less than half of it have gotten to our peasant farmers and that is our biggest challenge and we have made all we can to make sure that the 20,000 bags that were allocated to the region actually get to our people."

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He added that the government is committed to all farmers and will ensure transparency in the distribution of the fertilizers.

"As a government we are doing everything…our regional minister met the distributors with the DCEs in the region and supervised the allocations to the various districts and are making sure they get to the districts and to the farmers... He [Shiraz Jawol] should have come out with names so that we can prove whether those people are NPP or NDC," he said.

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