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Some furious schools taking care of cooks in the Western Region have picketed at the workplaces of the School Feeding Program Secretariat in Accra, fomenting over the non-installment of monies owed them for planning dinners for students.
They say their monies have been falling behind financially for in excess of three school terms.
The food providers, numbering around 50, are essential for the various cooks across the country who have boycotted cooking until the government pays them for work done.
Last week, cooks in Savannah, Volta, Western North, Oti, Bono, Ahafo, Bono East and North-East areas were supposedly paid by the public authority.
However, addressing Citi News, the cooks who went from the Western Region expressed not a solitary one of them has been paid regardless of their various protests.
One of the food providers who addressed Citi News said numerous different caterers have created afflictions and a have passed on because of the strain engaged with managing their indebted individuals.
"We came from the Western Region. The public authority has given us a task however at a point, the work became troublesome. Our instalments are done approaching as they used to be. At the point when they are to pay, they just make part installment. We are owed unfulfilled obligations from 2019 and 2020. There are likewise unfulfilled obligations from the beyond 11 months. Our debt holders are requesting their monies," the representative for the gathering said.
That's what she added, "the most terrible of everything is a portion of our partners have kicked the bucket because of the tensions in question. It is extremely humiliating attempting to stow away from your debt holder. We have come here on account of our monies. We have shown restraint this while, however today we need our monies."
The gathering spoke to Gertrude Quashigah, the Acting National Coordinator for the Ghana School Feeding Program, to quickly deal with their grumbling and guarantee they accept their installments to empower them to keep on delivering the dinner arrangement administration to understudies in the Western Region.
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