Some aggrieved cocoa farmers across the country have decided to demonstrate come May 1 2016 regarding how rampantly some cocoa farms are being destroyed for rubber plantation.
Speaking to the president of the Concerned Farmers Association (CFA), Nana Opambour indicated that rubber cultivation was fast spreading instead of cocoa.
According to him, the cultivation of cocoa farms must rather be encouraged than the rubber which according to him was getting much attention.
“We want to have a demonstration which has never occurred in the history of the country and the world at large. We have people moving from village to village convincing cocoa farmers to rather concentrate on rubber instead of cocoa” he said.
Nana Opambour indicated that the association had written letters to the appropriate headquarters concerning its grievances but all to no avail.
He said the reason for the demonstration is to alert authorities in the country that the laws of the country are not working and therefore needed to be enforced.
“If the laws of this country works and works well, like letters that have been issued to the IGP’S will be responded but nothing has been done. Not even a response from the office of Cocobod. ” he said
Nana Opambour quizzed why culprits of cocoa smuggling are apprehended and dealt with according to the law but people who destroy cocoa farms are left the hook
David Cameron’s
admission that he owned, sold and made a profit on shares held in a
controversial fund before he became PM has prompted a Labour MP to call
for him to resign.
Labour MP and Treasury Select Committee
member John Mann – who has been a high-profile campaigner for more tax
transparency – suggested Mr Cameron “has no choice but to resign” and
called him a “hypocrite”.
And Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson said the PM may need to quit and has more questions to answer.
He told Sky News: “He has to be fully
transparent. It’s no good just saying he’s going to publish his tax
returns because that won’t show what his investment portfolio was and we
need to know that now.”
Mr Watson added: “He’s condemned other
people in public life for being morally wrong whilst knowing he’s had
investments in these kind of schemes himself and that shows double
standards and people don’t like that.”
Mr Cameron last night admitted for the first time he held shares in the fund set up by his late father.
The Prime Minister has faced questions
this week over his family’s tax affairs after details of Ian Cameron’s
investment fund were reported as part of the Panama Papers leak.
Number 10 has said he will publish his own tax returns “in the coming weeks”.
Mr Cameron has previously suggested he
was prepared to publish his tax returns – including in an interview with
Sky News in 2012 – but is yet to do so.
Downing Street initially said his
family’s tax affairs were a private matter before saying the PM had no
offshore funds and trusts, and then making clear the family would not
benefit in future.
In response to a question from Sky’s Faisal Islam at an event on Wednesday, the PM said: “I have no shares, no offshore trusts, no offshore funds, nothing like that.”
Now in his fifth statement on the
matter, Mr Cameron said he and his wife sold shares worth more than
£30,000 in Blairmore Holdings six years ago.
The couple bought their holding in April 1997 for £12,497 and sold it in January 2010 for £31,500, according to Downing Street.
The PM said the pair’s profit was
“subject to all the UK taxes in the normal ways” and it was just below
the threshold at which capital gains tax would have applied.
The annual personal allowance for an
individual in 2009-10 was £10,100 – meaning jointly the profit was just
outside the threshold.
He also said his father left him £300,000, adding: “I obviously can’t point to every source of every bit of the money.”
According to The Guardian, papers leaked
from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca are said to suggest Ian
Cameron ran a fund that avoided having to pay tax in Britain by hiring
Bahamas residents to sign its paperwork.
But the PM insisted it was a
“fundamental misconception” that the fund was set up to avoid tax,
saying his father was being “unfairly written about”.
He also said he did not have “anything to hide” about his financial affairs.
Mr Cameron told ITV News: “I paid income
tax on the dividends, but there was a profit on it but it was less than
the capital gains tax allowance.
“So I didn’t pay capital gains tax, but it was subject to all the UK taxes in all the normal ways.
“So I want to be as clear as I can about
the past, about the present, about the future, because frankly, I don’t
have anything to hide.
“I’m proud of my dad and what he did and the business he established and all the rest of it.
“I can’t bear to see his name being
dragged through the mud, as you can see, and for my own, I chose to take
a different path from my father, grandfather and great-grandfather, who
were all stockbrokers.
“And I’ve got nothing to hide in my arrangements and I’m very happy to answer questions about it.”
Earlier this week the prime minister of
Iceland, who was named in the Panama Papers leak, resigned after
thousands called for him to quit
Credit:Sky News
A sensational matter that nearly rocked the ruling party to its foundation has been revealed by no less a person than “Citizen Vigilante”, Martin Amidu, the former Attorney General under the late President Mills.
According to Mr Amidu, the late President Mills set up a Committee of Enquiry to investigate the acquisition of aircraft for the Armed Forces negotiated by President John Mahama. President Mahama has not responded to this allegation of suspicious transactions.
On 19th February, 2009, in his State of the Nation address to Parliament, then President Mills told Parliament that his government was reviewing the decision to purchase two executive Presidential jets.
“Ghana simply cannot afford the expenditure at this time and we certainly do not need two Presidential Jets”, late President Mills told the whole world.
Unknown to many Ghanaians, then chairman of the Armed Forces Council, then Vice President John Mahama was frantically receiving delegations from Brazil and negotiating the acquisition of five jets, including the most expensive hangar for this poor nation, when his President appeared not to be aware of the transactions.
The late President Mills, apparently shocked and suspicious of then Vice President Mahama’s negotiations, set up a Committee, comprising Hon William Aboah, Mr. George Amoah and Brig. Gen. Allotey (Rtd.), to investigate the Processes of the Acquisition of Five Aircraft, including Embraer 190 aircraft and hangar to the Ghana Army.
The Committee to investigate whether the John Mahama-led team was diligent, truthful, incorrupt, patriotic, prudent and authorised to acquire five jets for Ghana never commenced sitting.
It is alleged that the Committee was dead on arrival because the late President Mills was confronted and warned of the implications of investigating then Vice President Mahama as well as other government officials and top military officers.
According to Martin Amidu, “pressure groups never allowed the Committee to take off. But the very fact that the late President Mills contemplated this Committee meant that he was uncomfortable with and suspicious of the alleged inflated prices of the aircraft.”
Well- meaning Ghanaians believe this is a huge indictment on John Mahama and his managers who had created the impression that the late President Mills trusted Mahama so much to allow him to manage the affairs of the nation
- See more at: http://ghanareporters.com/2012/10/23/mills-wanted-mahama-to-be-investigated-over-embraer-190-deal-amidu/#sthash.i2fsfyb6.dpuf
David Cameron’s
admission that he owned, sold and made a profit on shares held in a
controversial fund before he became PM has prompted a Labour MP to call
for him to resign.
Labour MP and Treasury Select Committee
member John Mann – who has been a high-profile campaigner for more tax
transparency – suggested Mr Cameron “has no choice but to resign” and
called him a “hypocrite”.
And Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson said the PM may need to quit and has more questions to answer.
He told Sky News: “He has to be fully
transparent. It’s no good just saying he’s going to publish his tax
returns because that won’t show what his investment portfolio was and we
need to know that now.”
Mr Watson added: “He’s condemned other
people in public life for being morally wrong whilst knowing he’s had
investments in these kind of schemes himself and that shows double
standards and people don’t like that.”
Mr Cameron last night admitted for the first time he held shares in the fund set up by his late father.
The Prime Minister has faced questions
this week over his family’s tax affairs after details of Ian Cameron’s
investment fund were reported as part of the Panama Papers leak.
Number 10 has said he will publish his own tax returns “in the coming weeks”.
Mr Cameron has previously suggested he
was prepared to publish his tax returns – including in an interview with
Sky News in 2012 – but is yet to do so.
Downing Street initially said his
family’s tax affairs were a private matter before saying the PM had no
offshore funds and trusts, and then making clear the family would not
benefit in future.
In response to a question from Sky’s Faisal Islam at an event on Wednesday, the PM said: “I have no shares, no offshore trusts, no offshore funds, nothing like that.”
Now in his fifth statement on the
matter, Mr Cameron said he and his wife sold shares worth more than
£30,000 in Blairmore Holdings six years ago.
The couple bought their holding in April 1997 for £12,497 and sold it in January 2010 for £31,500, according to Downing Street.
The PM said the pair’s profit was
“subject to all the UK taxes in the normal ways” and it was just below
the threshold at which capital gains tax would have applied.
The annual personal allowance for an
individual in 2009-10 was £10,100 – meaning jointly the profit was just
outside the threshold.
He also said his father left him £300,000, adding: “I obviously can’t point to every source of every bit of the money.”
According to The Guardian, papers leaked
from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca are said to suggest Ian
Cameron ran a fund that avoided having to pay tax in Britain by hiring
Bahamas residents to sign its paperwork.
But the PM insisted it was a
“fundamental misconception” that the fund was set up to avoid tax,
saying his father was being “unfairly written about”.
He also said he did not have “anything to hide” about his financial affairs.
Mr Cameron told ITV News: “I paid income
tax on the dividends, but there was a profit on it but it was less than
the capital gains tax allowance.
“So I didn’t pay capital gains tax, but it was subject to all the UK taxes in all the normal ways.
“So I want to be as clear as I can about
the past, about the present, about the future, because frankly, I don’t
have anything to hide.
“I’m proud of my dad and what he did and the business he established and all the rest of it.
“I can’t bear to see his name being
dragged through the mud, as you can see, and for my own, I chose to take
a different path from my father, grandfather and great-grandfather, who
were all stockbrokers.
“And I’ve got nothing to hide in my arrangements and I’m very happy to answer questions about it.”
Earlier this week the prime minister of
Iceland, who was named in the Panama Papers leak, resigned after
thousands called for him to quit
Credit:Sky News
A sensational matter that nearly rocked the ruling party to its foundation has been revealed by no less a person than “Citizen Vigilante”, Martin Amidu, the former Attorney General under the late President Mills.
According to Mr Amidu, the late President Mills set up a Committee of Enquiry to investigate the acquisition of aircraft for the Armed Forces negotiated by President John Mahama. President Mahama has not responded to this allegation of suspicious transactions.
On 19th February, 2009, in his State of the Nation address to Parliament, then President Mills told Parliament that his government was reviewing the decision to purchase two executive Presidential jets.
“Ghana simply cannot afford the expenditure at this time and we certainly do not need two Presidential Jets”, late President Mills told the whole world.
Unknown to many Ghanaians, then chairman of the Armed Forces Council, then Vice President John Mahama was frantically receiving delegations from Brazil and negotiating the acquisition of five jets, including the most expensive hangar for this poor nation, when his President appeared not to be aware of the transactions.
The late President Mills, apparently shocked and suspicious of then Vice President Mahama’s negotiations, set up a Committee, comprising Hon William Aboah, Mr. George Amoah and Brig. Gen. Allotey (Rtd.), to investigate the Processes of the Acquisition of Five Aircraft, including Embraer 190 aircraft and hangar to the Ghana Army.
The Committee to investigate whether the John Mahama-led team was diligent, truthful, incorrupt, patriotic, prudent and authorised to acquire five jets for Ghana never commenced sitting.
It is alleged that the Committee was dead on arrival because the late President Mills was confronted and warned of the implications of investigating then Vice President Mahama as well as other government officials and top military officers.
According to Martin Amidu, “pressure groups never allowed the Committee to take off. But the very fact that the late President Mills contemplated this Committee meant that he was uncomfortable with and suspicious of the alleged inflated prices of the aircraft.”
Well- meaning Ghanaians believe this is a huge indictment on John Mahama and his managers who had created the impression that the late President Mills trusted Mahama so much to allow him to manage the affairs of the nation
- See more at: http://ghanareporters.com/2012/10/23/mills-wanted-mahama-to-be-investigated-over-embraer-190-deal-amidu/#sthash.i2fsfyb6.dpuf
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