Food suppliers to senior high schools (SHS) in the three regions of the North have threatened to cut supplies to the schools if government fails to pay monies owned them.
The suppliers have also threatened to sue headmasters of the schools if the payment is not done.
The suppliers have not been paid for three terms of their supplies to these schools heightening fears that SHS in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West would not resume when schools reopen next year.
Speaking to Joy News the Northern Regional Chairman of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), Abdul Malik Salifu Husseini, said the indebtedness of government to these suppliers is a source of worry for parents.
He said these schools cannot go to the suppliers for food and cannot also on their own provide food for their various schools.
Alhaji Husseini said it is not surprising that the headmasters of the schools have threatened they will not reopen for the second term and reinforcing their threat by not announcing a date for the reopening.
He said the postponement of the reopening date for these schools will have an adverse effect on the academic calendar and studies of the students, something he said can affect their final examination.
According to him, several calls by the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) to government has not received any firm commitment with government being silent on the matter.
He, therefore, appealed to government to expedite action on the grants to ensure they pay all monies owed to enable the suppliers to begin supplies to the schools.
Alhaji Husseini said because of the perennial woes of these schools they as parents have started deliberating for an alternative.
He said parents are exploring long-term measures on how to support the schools should government decide to cancel the feeding grants, but added that in the interim parents continue to plead with government to pay the debts.
Source: myjoyonline
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This is not the matter of politics but is the matter of me and you.They is a saying that together we built divided we fall if you guys are talking about politics it will not land us any where but misunderstanding between us.If you remove the party here we are all Ghanaian not NDC or NPP because it is also rule by only one person even though we are all classified under the government.So please if Ghana will develop it is the matter of I and you building rather than posting unnecessary comments.THANK YOU
Why do the Northerners still support the NDC government? Are they playing tribal politics like the Ewes? Whether we like it or not, NPP is the only party that can change Ghana. Kuffour did it, and Akuffo Addo will excel. Ghana has suffered a lot in the hands of the AFRC/PNDC/NDC. When NPP moves Ghana forward, the NDC moves it backwards. Let us destroy the NDC Party and replace it with PPP, because it is a satanic party, which is thwarting our progress.
Eiii...i pity nana addo....the mess he has to fix is just mind blowing...hmmm