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”Bravo Mr. Minister, we’re solidly behind you”-CADA Vice President applauds Trades Minister for bold initiative.

”Bravo Mr. Minister, we’re solidly behind you”-CADA Vice President applauds Trades Minister for bold initiative.

 

 

Vice President of the Confederacy for the Development of poultry in Africa (CADA), Mr. John Bewuah Edusei is applauding Minister of Trade and Industry, Hon. K. T. Hammond for some initiatives he intend to introduce in 2024.

The Ministry tabled a motion for parliamentary approval on November 21, 2023 to place restrictions on some items that are imported into the country.

The move, according to Mr. Bewuah Edusei is long overdue and therefore applauds the Minister for the boldness to take such a step that is advantageous to the future of the country’s economy.

The Minister explained during a press conference earlier this week in Parliament that the move was aimed at boosting local production.

His Ministry, he noted was therefore seeking Parliament’s approval to restrict the importation of some 20 strategic products into the country.

These items include rice, diapers and some animal intestines. “Stomach of animals, bladder and the chunk of intestines (yamadie), the country had had to put in an amount of about $164 million towards the importation of these items. We are taking steps to ensure that in terms of rice, there’s no poverty of rice in the country,” The Hon. Minister said.

In a statement issued to journalists on Thursday, November 23, 2023, the CADA Vice President also expressed misgivings at some people who are already against the yet-to-be-taken step of the minister.

“…I  heard of people bitterly speaking against it, with insults and outright condemnation.
Sometime you wonder if our country men want to see the building of our nation or  just interested in condemning, either for political gains or selfish gains because of business.” He noted.

He however encouraged Hon. Hammond not to allow the antagonistic views to stop him from leading the way in planning for the future of the country.

“Mr. MINISTER, BRAVO, table your motion before Parliament. Prove your qualities as a leader, Stand firm, reject the insults and the pull him down syndrome and lets begin to plan for it.”

His full statement has been published below:

A Short while ago, I heard a news item that talked about a list of items prepared by the minister of Trade and industries, Mr K.T. Hammond,  sent to Parliament and requesting for a BAN ON IT’S IMPORTATION into our country. Already in the same news item, I  heard of people bitterly speaking against it, with insults and outright condemnation.
Sometime you wonder if our country men want to see the building of our nation or  just interested in condemning, either for political gains or selfish gains because of business.

If the minister calls for a ban on certain items, it dose not mean that the businesses involved are being collapsed. It only wants same businesses to invest their capital in local production to create jobs for our citizenry, rather than to create jobs for the countries from where we import.

It also means that we can conserve our foreign exchange reserves and strengthen our local currency,  the Cedi.

We have become too complacent, always seeking easier Profits from buying and selling and not profits from Local Production. Over $130 Million worth of OFFALS or the Viscera organs of Cattle, is a disgrace. I also remember that at one stage we were importing Chicken legs, this is just unacceptable for a great country like Ghana, who seek to be mentioned among the best.

If the Pounds Sterling, Dollar and Euros are stronger today, it is because these countries concentrated on local production and rather exported their surpuluouses for foreign exchange. If indeed importation is the number one enemy to the regular fall of our Cedi, why is it taking us too long to deliver the Cedi from imports. Why has it taken us too long to strengthen Cedi through local Production?

One such example is our huge Poultry industry that has been given over to our foreign brothers EU, USA, BRAZIL etc. Today the Poultry industry in Ghana is near collapse, all because of the huge imports of Frozen Chicken. Farms that use to have about 800,000 chicken like AKATE FARMS, today has just about 20,000 chicken and jobs have fallen from 700 to 15.  I can Go on and on. TOPMAN FARMS, RICHARM,  UNITY FARMS, G.I. FARMS, AMPOFO FARMS and many others.

I do agree that the successes of this policy  may not be very sudden, but its an excellent beginning and we all as a nation need to begin to plan with a pragmatic programme that offers a bright future full of successes.

I will like to single out the example of Nigeria. On one single occasion in the year 2003, the then president of Nigeria, President Obasango, at a single programme declared, (IF NIGERIA CAN NOT PRODUCE CARS AND AIROPLANES, IF NIGERIA CAN NOT PRODUCE ITS BUSES AND MACHINERY, HOW ABOUT THE CHICKEN THAT WALKS AROUND ALL OUR COUNTRY, EVEN THE VILLAGES?

DO WE ALSO NEED THE WHITE MAN TO PRODUCE CHICKEN FOR US TO EAT ? WITH IMMDIATE EFFECT, ALL IMPORTATION OF CHICKEN AND CHICKEN PRODUCTS ARE BANNED AND ITS AN OFFENCE TO DO SO. THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCEINCE AND WE MUST BEGIN TO DO IT OURSELVES, WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT. YES WE CAN.

I am talking about the ALMIGHTY Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa. If NIGERIA COULD TAKE THIS BOLD INITIATIVE, HOW CAN’T SMALL GHANA ?

This decision was bound to create some shortages for a period, but at the same time you create a huge local market and create JOBS. It is said that nature abhors vacuum and any time you create a vacuum, you also create the opportunities for the citizens to shuttle around and find all means to produce locally, to fill the vacuum created.

It may take a little time, but when success is achieved, it is forever. This policy has worked so well for Nigeria and also extented to other local products by 2015.

If Ghanaians woke up one day to see that there was no chicken to eat, the same Ghanaians will now begin to find out how they create their own Chicken to eat. MIND YOU, TODAY’S  POULTRY SCEINCE HAVE IMPROVED TO A LEVEL WHERE THE BROILER CHICKEN CAN BE RAISED IN A TIME OF 4 AND 5 WEEKS ONLY. Today in Nigeria, its not only CHICKEN, but the list goes on and on and on and on.

It includes more than 30 other products, including  RICE.

The Nigerian Rice may not be as perfumed and sweet as what we import into Ghana, but at the end of the day, it provides lots of Jobs and the citizens are content eating their own thing and happy making local production in their own backyard.

In the case of Ghana, our local Rice is on record as being the best, yet we wait for sometimes only one company, like the days of FINATRADE, to import all the rice, make all the profit, send their money home and declare bankruptcy, collaping 3 local Banks.

I am very sad and disappointed with comment over this initiative by Honourable KT HAMMOND and his Ministry, with some people even calling the Minister as WICKED. Is that how we want grow our nation?

We are virtually been spoon-fed by the waste of our white partners? How about the years and days when goods and services can not flow from one angle of the world to another, because of  disasters? Most of The products they bring to us are their waste and by-products.

Do we know that the world’s population is targeted at reaching about 11.2 Billion by the year 2100 ? When do we want to start planning for this population increases. Please note that the developed world will feed its own, before the waste gets to us.

How about our Imports from the DRY PORTIONS OF AFRICA,  BURKINA, NIGER etc ? Are we not ashamed importing  Onions, Tomatoes, Water Mellons, Carrots etc, to a Wet land like Ghana? Are we not ashamed? When do we want to start developing a Ghana that is self sufficient, with its basic needs? How about Making the Sacrifices today, with a Vision to reach a certain targets tomorrow ?

Then there is the issue of our meagre foreign exchange which has to be used for food imports, with all the Green lands at our disposal.

Chicken alone takes about $500 Million and again to mention that our Food import value is more than $2 Billion.

When will we start developing our dear nation and putting an end to this petty Politics?

A politics that sees everything wrong with everything good? That is not how to succeed in life and Government. If power is destined for you, talking good about a good policy does not mean that you will not win power, if indeed its your turn.

Mr. MINISTER, BRAVO, table your motion before Parliament. Prove your qualities as a leader, Stand firm, reject the insults and the pull him down syndrome and lets begin to plan for it.

THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCEINCE and if we have to succeed as a nation, we have to start now, getting the importers to INVEST IN GHANA. THE TIME OF  SPOON FEEDING, BUYING (IMPORTING) AND SELLING, DOES NOT HAVE A FUTURE FOR OUR DEAR NATION, it must end at some point.

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”Bravo Mr. Minister, we’re solidly behind you”-CADA Vice President applauds Trades Minister for bold initiative.

”Bravo Mr. Minister, we’re solidly behind you”-CADA Vice President applauds Trades Minister for bold initiative.

 

 

Vice President of the Confederacy for the Development of poultry in Africa (CADA), Mr. John Bewuah Edusei is applauding Minister of Trade and Industry, Hon. K. T. Hammond for some initiatives he intend to introduce in 2024.

The Ministry tabled a motion for parliamentary approval on November 21, 2023 to place restrictions on some items that are imported into the country.

The move, according to Mr. Bewuah Edusei is long overdue and therefore applauds the Minister for the boldness to take such a step that is advantageous to the future of the country’s economy.

The Minister explained during a press conference earlier this week in Parliament that the move was aimed at boosting local production.

His Ministry, he noted was therefore seeking Parliament’s approval to restrict the importation of some 20 strategic products into the country.

These items include rice, diapers and some animal intestines. “Stomach of animals, bladder and the chunk of intestines (yamadie), the country had had to put in an amount of about $164 million towards the importation of these items. We are taking steps to ensure that in terms of rice, there’s no poverty of rice in the country,” The Hon. Minister said.

In a statement issued to journalists on Thursday, November 23, 2023, the CADA Vice President also expressed misgivings at some people who are already against the yet-to-be-taken step of the minister.

“…I  heard of people bitterly speaking against it, with insults and outright condemnation.
Sometime you wonder if our country men want to see the building of our nation or  just interested in condemning, either for political gains or selfish gains because of business.” He noted.

He however encouraged Hon. Hammond not to allow the antagonistic views to stop him from leading the way in planning for the future of the country.

“Mr. MINISTER, BRAVO, table your motion before Parliament. Prove your qualities as a leader, Stand firm, reject the insults and the pull him down syndrome and lets begin to plan for it.”

His full statement has been published below:

A Short while ago, I heard a news item that talked about a list of items prepared by the minister of Trade and industries, Mr K.T. Hammond,  sent to Parliament and requesting for a BAN ON IT’S IMPORTATION into our country. Already in the same news item, I  heard of people bitterly speaking against it, with insults and outright condemnation.
Sometime you wonder if our country men want to see the building of our nation or  just interested in condemning, either for political gains or selfish gains because of business.

If the minister calls for a ban on certain items, it dose not mean that the businesses involved are being collapsed. It only wants same businesses to invest their capital in local production to create jobs for our citizenry, rather than to create jobs for the countries from where we import.

It also means that we can conserve our foreign exchange reserves and strengthen our local currency,  the Cedi.

We have become too complacent, always seeking easier Profits from buying and selling and not profits from Local Production. Over $130 Million worth of OFFALS or the Viscera organs of Cattle, is a disgrace. I also remember that at one stage we were importing Chicken legs, this is just unacceptable for a great country like Ghana, who seek to be mentioned among the best.

If the Pounds Sterling, Dollar and Euros are stronger today, it is because these countries concentrated on local production and rather exported their surpuluouses for foreign exchange. If indeed importation is the number one enemy to the regular fall of our Cedi, why is it taking us too long to deliver the Cedi from imports. Why has it taken us too long to strengthen Cedi through local Production?

One such example is our huge Poultry industry that has been given over to our foreign brothers EU, USA, BRAZIL etc. Today the Poultry industry in Ghana is near collapse, all because of the huge imports of Frozen Chicken. Farms that use to have about 800,000 chicken like AKATE FARMS, today has just about 20,000 chicken and jobs have fallen from 700 to 15.  I can Go on and on. TOPMAN FARMS, RICHARM,  UNITY FARMS, G.I. FARMS, AMPOFO FARMS and many others.

I do agree that the successes of this policy  may not be very sudden, but its an excellent beginning and we all as a nation need to begin to plan with a pragmatic programme that offers a bright future full of successes.

I will like to single out the example of Nigeria. On one single occasion in the year 2003, the then president of Nigeria, President Obasango, at a single programme declared, (IF NIGERIA CAN NOT PRODUCE CARS AND AIROPLANES, IF NIGERIA CAN NOT PRODUCE ITS BUSES AND MACHINERY, HOW ABOUT THE CHICKEN THAT WALKS AROUND ALL OUR COUNTRY, EVEN THE VILLAGES?

DO WE ALSO NEED THE WHITE MAN TO PRODUCE CHICKEN FOR US TO EAT ? WITH IMMDIATE EFFECT, ALL IMPORTATION OF CHICKEN AND CHICKEN PRODUCTS ARE BANNED AND ITS AN OFFENCE TO DO SO. THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCEINCE AND WE MUST BEGIN TO DO IT OURSELVES, WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT. YES WE CAN.

I am talking about the ALMIGHTY Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa. If NIGERIA COULD TAKE THIS BOLD INITIATIVE, HOW CAN’T SMALL GHANA ?

This decision was bound to create some shortages for a period, but at the same time you create a huge local market and create JOBS. It is said that nature abhors vacuum and any time you create a vacuum, you also create the opportunities for the citizens to shuttle around and find all means to produce locally, to fill the vacuum created.

It may take a little time, but when success is achieved, it is forever. This policy has worked so well for Nigeria and also extented to other local products by 2015.

If Ghanaians woke up one day to see that there was no chicken to eat, the same Ghanaians will now begin to find out how they create their own Chicken to eat. MIND YOU, TODAY’S  POULTRY SCEINCE HAVE IMPROVED TO A LEVEL WHERE THE BROILER CHICKEN CAN BE RAISED IN A TIME OF 4 AND 5 WEEKS ONLY. Today in Nigeria, its not only CHICKEN, but the list goes on and on and on and on.

It includes more than 30 other products, including  RICE.

The Nigerian Rice may not be as perfumed and sweet as what we import into Ghana, but at the end of the day, it provides lots of Jobs and the citizens are content eating their own thing and happy making local production in their own backyard.

In the case of Ghana, our local Rice is on record as being the best, yet we wait for sometimes only one company, like the days of FINATRADE, to import all the rice, make all the profit, send their money home and declare bankruptcy, collaping 3 local Banks.

I am very sad and disappointed with comment over this initiative by Honourable KT HAMMOND and his Ministry, with some people even calling the Minister as WICKED. Is that how we want grow our nation?

We are virtually been spoon-fed by the waste of our white partners? How about the years and days when goods and services can not flow from one angle of the world to another, because of  disasters? Most of The products they bring to us are their waste and by-products.

Do we know that the world’s population is targeted at reaching about 11.2 Billion by the year 2100 ? When do we want to start planning for this population increases. Please note that the developed world will feed its own, before the waste gets to us.

How about our Imports from the DRY PORTIONS OF AFRICA,  BURKINA, NIGER etc ? Are we not ashamed importing  Onions, Tomatoes, Water Mellons, Carrots etc, to a Wet land like Ghana? Are we not ashamed? When do we want to start developing a Ghana that is self sufficient, with its basic needs? How about Making the Sacrifices today, with a Vision to reach a certain targets tomorrow ?

Then there is the issue of our meagre foreign exchange which has to be used for food imports, with all the Green lands at our disposal.

Chicken alone takes about $500 Million and again to mention that our Food import value is more than $2 Billion.

When will we start developing our dear nation and putting an end to this petty Politics?

A politics that sees everything wrong with everything good? That is not how to succeed in life and Government. If power is destined for you, talking good about a good policy does not mean that you will not win power, if indeed its your turn.

Mr. MINISTER, BRAVO, table your motion before Parliament. Prove your qualities as a leader, Stand firm, reject the insults and the pull him down syndrome and lets begin to plan for it.

THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCEINCE and if we have to succeed as a nation, we have to start now, getting the importers to INVEST IN GHANA. THE TIME OF  SPOON FEEDING, BUYING (IMPORTING) AND SELLING, DOES NOT HAVE A FUTURE FOR OUR DEAR NATION, it must end at some point.

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