Ghana Cotton Farmers Association calls for end to strike action
NDC will always stand for the truth – Mills
Tamale (Northern region) 21 July 2000
Mr Patrick Apullah, Secretary of the Ghana Cotton Farmers Association, on Thursday appealed to striking field workers of the Nulux Plantations Company to call off their strike action to save the cotton industry.
"I wish to appeal to the management and striking workers of Nulux Plantations Company to resolve their impasse in the interest of our poor farmers who are the end losers," he said in a letter to the concerned parties and made available to the Ghana News Agency.
It said cotton farmers had waited in vain for farm inputs from the Nulux Company while the period for the application of compound fertilisers had elapsed and was bound to affect cotton yields.
Meanwhile, the association and the cotton companies have, after negotiations, pegged the prices for compound fertiliser and ammonia at 60,000 and 40,000 cedis respectively per 50 kilogram and insecticides at 25,000 cedis a litre.
The letter warned all farmers not to divert farm inputs meant for cotton farms to other crops, saying anyone found contravening the directive would be severely dealt with.
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Yendi (Northern Region) 21 July
2000
Vice-President John Evans Attah
Mills on Thursday said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will always stand
by the truth in its dealings with the electorate no matter the political
implications.
He said no matter how bitter the
truth is, it is the better option than to tell lies, adding: "If a person
tells lies for a long time, there will come a time when he will become a victim
of his own lies".
Professor Mills said this when he
addressed a mini-durbar at Yendi during which he paid a courtesy call on Ya Na
Yakubu Andani II, Paramount Chief of Dagbon in the Northern Region.
It was part of his five-day tour
of the Northern Region, which has already taken him to the Tamale Municipality
as well as Tijo, Sang and Sambo in the Yendi District.
Prof. Mills said it is not the
style of the NDC to encourage political violence, and urged party supporters
not to allow themselves to be drawn into any confrontation with their political
opponents.
"Those who are not in the NDC
are not our enemies and our doors are open to those who want to join us."
The Vice-President and his
entourage were met by a large crowd of party supporters waving, cheering and
chanting party slogans.
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