No guinea fowl flew to Burkina Faso – Mahama on infamous ‘akonfem’ saga

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has debunked assertions that guinea fowls under the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) flew to Burkina Faso during his tenure as president in 2014.

It would be recalled that the management of SADA in 2014 made headlines when information broke that some guinea fowls under the initiative migrated to neighbouring Burkina Faso.
During a media engagement in Bolgatanga to wrap up his tour of the Upper East Region, the former President said the allegations levelled against him were not true.

Mahama explained that, unlike the popular belief that the rearing of the birds was to be concentrated in an enclosed area, it was actually an incubation process where the day-old chicks were then to be distributed to farmers for onward rearing.

He blamed the media for the wide publication without the necessary checks to understand the project properly.
The former president added that there was an elaborate plan where the mature guinea fowls were to be processed in a plant and transported to market centres across the country.

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