The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Director of Communications, Richard Kwadwo Ahiagbah, has invoked Ghana’s Right to Information Act to formally demand a full financial and operational account of the Mahama administration’s flagship Feed Ghana Programme, as the initiative approaches its one-year anniversary.
In a letter dated March 5, 2026 and addressed to the Information Officer and Chief Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ahiagbah cited the Right to Information Act, 2019 (Act 989) to request detailed records on the programme’s funding, expenditure, beneficiaries, and outcomes for the 2025 fiscal year.
Among the specific details sought, Ahiagbah requested the total budget allocated to the Feed Ghana Programme in 2025, including sources of funding, the total amount released, and actual expenditure. He also asked for a breakdown of spending across the programme’s key components, including input support such as seeds, fertilisers, and agrochemicals, mechanisation services, irrigation development, livestock and poultry interventions, and extension services and farmer training.
The request further seeks data on the number of farmers who benefited from the programme, with a regional breakdown of beneficiaries and details of the specific interventions they received, as well as the geographic coverage of the programme across regions, districts, and communities.
President John Dramani Mahama launched the Feed Ghana Programme on April 12, 2025 in Techiman in the Bono East Region as the central pillar of his Agriculture for Economic Transformation Agenda (AETA). The programme targets food security, poverty reduction among farmers, youth employment in agriculture, and stabilisation of food prices, with a stated ambition to reduce Ghana’s food import bill, which currently exceeds $2 billion annually.
Ahiagbah said the public deserves transparency on how resources committed to a major national programme are being deployed, adding that one year into implementation, the questions being asked are not political but practical.
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has not publicly responded to the RTI request. Under Act 989, public institutions are required to respond to information requests within 14 working days, with provision for a further extension in defined circumstances.
