The Acting Chairman of the Supreme Consultative Council Alhaji Iddrisu told Adom News in an interview that even though it is true that there have been some transfers in the cocoa sector, it was not done on political basis.
Some aggrieved workers of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) are asking the government to remove their Chief Executive Officer (CEO) as his actions would collapse the entity, which is the regulator of the cocoa industry.
The workers, who pleaded anonymity, alleged that some top directors of the organisation who are perceived by Tony Fofie as anti-National Democratic Congress (NDC) elements have been transferred from their departments to other divisions and feared that the axe would fall on many more staff.
Mr. Fofie is alleged to have sworn heaven and earth to sack Thomas Dandzo, Director of Special Services of COCOBOD; his deputy, Joe Nsiah and all officers in the Special Services Department, who embarked on an investigative exercise that discovered a shady deal in which a certain Tom Brown, the CEO’s close pal and believed to be a foot-soldier of the NDC, allegedly squandered monies paid for the operations of an anti-cocoa smuggling vigilante squad.
The infuriated workers said some statistics churned out last year by the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Control Unit of the organisation revealed that, up to 60 percent of cocoa produced in the Western region last year were smuggled to Ivory Coast.
However, Alhaji Iddrisu told Adom News that none of the names mentioned above have been transferred on political basis.
He said some of the affected workers, citing Mr. Thomas Dandzo, have been moved promoted.
Alhaji Iddrisu said all the workers may have their political parties but stated that does not affect their work in any way.
Story:Nana Yaa Boamponsem/Adom News
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