'Kenkey' size hasn’t reduced under my watch - President Mahama

President John Mahama has stated that the size of ‘Kenkey’ has not reduced under his watch because there was an abundant supply of staple food in the country.

“We have done well in terms of our staple foods. There is no shortage in terms of our staple foods,” President Mahama told Ghanaians in Germany Tuesday after his two-day state visit to the European country.

He said there was an abundant supply of maize, cassava, yam and plantain in the country.

The President said: “Indeed we’re overproducing most of those foods and so we’re exporting yams; a lot of plantains get rotten because theirs is overproduction and we have a lot of cassava. We’re overproducing cassava. So for the staple foods that we have eaten traditionally as Ghanaians, those foods are available and abundant.

“So if you eat our traditional foods, you don’t have a problem and that is why of all the things I’m accused of, an increase in the price of ‘gari olonka’ which used to be the standard for measuring the performance of the government, or I’m not accused that the size of a ball of ‘kenkey’ is shrinking.”

In Germany, Present Mahama held discussions with the Chancellor Merkel, and the Federal President, Mr Joachim Gauck, in Berlin.