A lecturer at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Ellen Ama Daaku has criticized the administrative reforms at the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), particularly the decision to reduce staff salaries in response to the sector’s liquidity challenges.
According to her, the decision to reduce salaries by twenty percent (20%) will not be enough to address the liquidity challenges confronting the cocoa sector.
However, she is of the views that, deeper pay cut would have demonstrated stronger commitment.
“To show that they feel what cocoa farmers are going through, for me, to make any impact and to avoid any sort of settings they should reduce 50% of their basic salary,” she indicated on Angel TV’s Anopa Bofoɔ, Tuesday, February, 17, 2026.
Mrs. Daaku further emphasized that the reform, which reduces cocoa farmers’ prices by 28%, is affecting them more severely.
“Farmer does not have any allowance to fall on so the cut has a greater impact on them compared to staff who rely on certain allowances,” she noted.
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Source: Ernest Kelvin Okanta
