SHS food shortages: Government owing Buffer Stock GH¢340m – Education Minister;
Schooling Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei-Adutwum has affirmed that administration owes the National Food Buffer Stock Company a remarkable measure of GH¢ 340 million.
The public authority's obligation to the organization and different elements has occasioned a deficiency of food things in a few secondary schools in the country.
Answering inquiries in Parliament, Dr Osei-Adutwum said the public authority was making progress toward clearing the obligation and finishing the food deficiency in Senior High Schools.
SHS food shortages: Government owing Buffer Stock GH¢340m.
He noticed that the public authority has paid over GH¢327 million to the organization this year to guarantee food supply to schools.
"Upper West and every one of the locales where there was an emergency over the most recent couple of days, they have all seen improvement as far as provisions that are coming to them, and they will keep on seeing enhancements from today on."
SHS food shortages: Government owing Buffer Stock GH¢340m.
Responding to the Education Minister's comments on Eyewitness News, the Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, said he was not persuaded by the affirmations.
He sees the deficiencies as a Finance Ministry issue and said the Education Ministry brings no answer for the table to the extent that the lack of food things in schools is concerned.
I will take a confirmation from the Ministry of Finance in light of the fact that the issue is totally outside the domain or the purview of the Ministry of Education,he said.
I will take confirmations from the Ministry of Finance that the Finance Ministry will regard the payment or the income projections as submitted to it by the Ministry of Education. Other than that, we will have this conversation in something like two months once more.
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