Management of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBO) has said the shipment of Cocoa to the global market has remained an uninterrupted process and without threats.
COCOBOD’s statement comes in reaction to media publications purporting that the company in charge of the shipping−the Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC) Ghana Limited−a subsidiary of COCOBOD−has subjected companies involved in the exportation process to some inhumane treatments likely to affect the exportation of the product.
According to the Management, the claims could not be true because among other reasons, CMC has 60 years’ experience in the work and “performs this role exceptionally with highly skilled and competent staff”.
COCOBOD’s statement issued on September 30, 2021 continued, “All of its operations, including the determination and allocation of shipments, are well defined and structured. These structures do not allow any individual or group of individuals to have undue leverage in determining which shipping lines get freight allocations.”
Finding the publication ill-considered false and malicious, the Management noted that none of the alleged complaints being carried out in the Inquisitor newspaper reached their doorstep neither has any of their staff issued such threats to any shipping line in the determination and allocation of shipments.
While urging the public to disregard the publication, the management has threatened to take action against the publisher−Inquisitor newspaper− should they fail to retract the publication and offer unqualified apology to it.
