By Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
The 2024 flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. John Dramani Mahama, says his government will decentralize food supply to Senior High Schools (SHS).
According to him, the next NDC government will cancel the supply of food items to SHSs by the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NFBSC) as part of his vision to review the Free SHS policy.
The NDC’s 2024 flag bearer explains that feeding grants would be channeled through the heads of SHSs to procure the food items locally for students instead of mortgaging everything in the hands of the NFBSC.
Mr. Mahama gave the assurance during his Building Ghana Tour at Kambatiak in the North East Region,
“We are coming to decentralise the cooking of food for children and the procurement of food. The headmasters of the schools are going to be responsible for procuring food for the children.
They are not going to sit and wait for National Buffer Stock to bring the food. If we decentralise the procurement of food, the headmasters will be able to procure the food from the farmers in the area and they will be able to buy groundnuts, they will be able to buy beans, they will be able to buy vegetables so that the children can get a nutritious diet.
And so the feeding grants should not go to Buffer Stock. The feeding grants should be paid directly to the secondary schools so that the headmasters can use the money and buy nutritious food for the children. And so we are going to make Free SHS better,” NDC’s 2024 flag bearer explained.
