AMA debunks bicycle for Best Farmer assertions, says she received more
Following a social media trend that was purported to be the prize from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to the best farmer in the metropolis from yesterday’s farmers day celebration which sparked public outburst and ridicule that the price is woefully inadequate, the AMA has come out to clarify that Mrs Naa Adjeley Mensah who was adjudged the best farmer was adequately rewarded contrary to the claims-making rounds on social media that she was only given a bicycle, sprayer and some assorted items.
According to the assembly facts regarding the matter had been distorted.
“The attention of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly has been drawn to several syndicated publications circulating on social media and some online portals insinuating that the Overall Best Farmer for AMA was honoured with a bicycle, sprayer and assorted items.”
“The AMA, however, wishes to inform the general public in unequivocal terms that the facts of the publications had been distorted and that she was adequately rewarded despite an erroneous impression being created on social media that she was only given a bicycle.”
They went ahead to reveal that the recipient of the award Madam Naa Adjeley Mensah who is a backyard farmer at Korle Bu received a Rambo 500 poly tank, knapsack, seeds, insecticides, cutlasses, fertilizers in addition to the bicycle after a series of engagements with officials from the Assembly’s Agric Department.
Other award recipients on the day include Best Agro Processor, Best Crop Farmer, Best Innovative Farmer, Best Backyard Farmer, Best Fish Processor, Best Hook and Line Fisherman and Best Fisherman also received deep freezers, mesh for fencing, Rambo 500 and 350 poly tanks, knapsacks, seeds, insecticides, cutlasses, fertilizers, a laptop, water pump, and corn mill motor as their prizes.
They also added that “The AMA would want to urge the general public to ignore the said publications and treat it as mischief”.
An official at the AMA who further clarified issues regarding the awards explained that it was the easily moveable prizes that were brought to the ceremony grounds, whiles the not easily movable ones such as the Polytank, fertilizers and insecticides were not in the view of the cameras that captured the bicycle.
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
