Ellen Ama Daaku, a member of the New Patriotic Party’s National Communication Team, has claimed that she is jobless as her father takes care of her.
According to Ellen Ama Daaku, she is unable to pay her rent due to President Mahama’s recent decision regarding the cocoa sector.
Ellen Ama Daaku disclosed that as a daughter of a cocoa farmer, her dad takes care of her, and now she is unable to due to Mahama’s decision to cut cocoa prices.
Speaking in an interview on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo, Ellen Ama Daaku explained, “For me, the cocoa issues I cannot stop talking about it because I am unemployed, and it is my father who takes care of me. Anytime my father sells his cocoa, he gives me money. Some years, he gives me GH¢10,000 or GH¢20,000.
“This year, if all things had gone well in the cocoa sector, I would have received about GH¢30,000 from my father to pay my rent. But because of President Mahama’s decision, my father was unable to give me money, and I haven’t been able to pay my rent.”
The NPP woman added, “They have reduced GH¢1,100 from the cocoa price, which is affecting the farmers. The same cocoa is what takes care of me and my children, so President Mahama should give the farmers their money so we can also get our share.”
Also, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsawam/Adoagyiri, has told cocoa farmers that if the John Mahama government have the sense to borrow to buy an aircraft, but cannot do the same for them, they should let the aircraft go and vote for them.
According to Annoh-Dompreh, the Mahama government has the sense to borrow to buy an aircraft, but cannot have the sense to borrow to help cocoa farmers with the cocoa price cut.
Speaking to Cocoa farmers, Frank Annoh-Dompreh stated, “If you can have the sense to borrow to buy an aircraft but cannot have the sense to borrow to help cocoa farmers, then let the aircraft go and vote for you when there is an election”.
Meanwhile, President John Dramani Mahama has said his government’s decision to reduce the cocoa producer price is difficult but necessary.
Mahama explained that the reduction was aimed at addressing acute liquidity challenges within the cocoa sector.
According to John Mahama, maintaining the previous price would have compelled the government to borrow billions, which he says could have taken the country back into economic difficulties.
Delivering his 2026 State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament, President Mahama explained, “Mr Speaker, a nation that does not learn from past mistakes cannot get out of the cycle of problems that impose hardship on its citizens.
We have just begun to emerge from the most devastating economic crisis in our nation’s recent history. This crisis was triggered by general financial indiscipline, huge deficits and massive debt occasioned by persistent unbudgeted expenditure to meet the ends of convenient politicking.
In the last few weeks, we have had to take the painful but necessary decision to revise the producer price of Cocoa to achieve competitive pricing and resolve acute liquidity challenges in the sector. Failure to do so would have meant pumping in billions of borrowed funds”.
He added, “This unplanned expenditure would have taken us right back to the very devastating economic problems we have only recently begun to escape.
So, while fully understanding the concerns and protests of our farmers, I can firmly assure them that the reforms announced by the government will see a total transformation of the sector and guarantee them a fair price that enables them to meet the cost of producing the commodity and make decent margins.
The difference between economic hardships and avoiding the same is the exercise of sound economic judgement, and I am determined to take decisions that ensure our collective wellbeing and avoid suffering for all our citizens.”
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