President John Dramani Mahama has acknowledged shortcomings in Ghana\u2019s efforts to secure sustainable funding for the cocoa sector and strengthen the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), describing them as lessons in responsibility rather than points of blame.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Wednesday, February 11, the President admitted that challenges in managing state\u2011owned enterprises have undermined their effectiveness.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe failed to raise sustainable funding for cocoa and COCOBOD\u2019s capacity to syndicate effectively. These are not points of blame, but lessons in responsibility,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n He further noted that governance lapses, political interference, and weak financial discipline have eroded the credibility of institutions that were once pillars of stability.<\/p>\n \u201cOur handling of state\u2011owned enterprises has at times been uneven. Weak governance frameworks, political interference, and inadequate financial discipline have undermined institutions that were once engines of stability and credibility,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Mahama added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President John Dramani Mahama has acknowledged shortcomings in Ghana\u2019s efforts to secure sustainable funding for the cocoa sector and strengthen the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), describing them as lessons in responsibility rather than points of blame. Speaking on Wednesday, February 11, the President admitted that challenges in managing state\u2011owned enterprises have undermined their effectiveness. \u201cWe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":15614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3525,41],"tags":[4930,3058],"class_list":["post-15613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-general-news","tag-cocoa-sector-funding","tag-president-john-dramani-mahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15615,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15613\/revisions\/15615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}