{"id":224833,"date":"2026-02-24T01:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-cocoa-road-contracts-cause-of-cocobods-financial-strain-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:09:59","slug":"ghana-cocoa-road-contracts-cause-of-cocobods-financial-strain-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-cocoa-road-contracts-cause-of-cocobods-financial-strain-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Cocoa Road Contracts Cause of Cocobod&#8217;s Financial Strain &#8211; &#8211; Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwame Governs Agbodza, has attributed the financial challenges currently facing the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to the awarding of cocoa road contracts worth GH\u00a223 billion during the 2023\/2024 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He explained that the magnitude of these contracts forced COCOBOD to channel significant funds into procuring construction materials, adversely affecting the institution&#8217;s financial position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Mr Agbodza made the remarks in Parliament on Wednesday while&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200438.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwame Governs Agbodza, has attributed the financial challenges currently facing the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to the awarding of cocoa road contracts worth GH\u00a223 billion during the 2023\/2024 fiscal year. He explained that the magnitude of these contracts forced COCOBOD to channel significant funds into procuring construction materials, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,3029,53748,10119,5063,4508,4509,5941,257,7414,254,23061],"class_list":["post-224833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cocoa","tag-cocobods","tag-contracts","tag-financial","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strain"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}