A Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has debunked assertions made by the President of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), Mrs. Cecilia Kwakye Cofie, about government’s failure to release subsidies to Senior High Schools.
Ms Cofie, who was speaking at the 68th Speech and Prize-Giving Day of the Winneba Senior High School over the weekend, said senior high schools risk being closed down if fees absorbed by government did not reach the schools immediately.
“The major challenges confronting SHSs are the arrears and subsidies, release of payments of scholarship to second and third-year students and the renege on the part of government to supply food to the schools,” she said.
But reacting to these assertions, the Deputy Education Minister, who is in charge of Pre-Tertiary, said the assertions are false, adding the Ministry of Education has an arrangement with CHASS, which is well adhered to by all stakeholders.
“We have an arrangement with CHASS which Mrs. Cecilia Kwakye Cofie is well aware of,” he said on 3FM’s Sunrise on Monday.
“We made a simple proposition to CHASS where we give them part of the revenue at the beginning of the term, after which we receive returns from the schools four weeks after they resume in order to make subsequent payments.”
Dr. Osei Adutwum said there has been no complaint from any school because government has gone by the procedure agreed upon.
He added that his Ministry is in constant contact with heads of the various schools across the country.
According to Dr. Osei Adutwum, some schools have sent their reports and partial returns and payments have been made on their behalf.
“The revenue of a number of items will not be sent to the schools for them to make payment because the ministry is directly paying for it,” he said.
He noted that food has been supplied to schools as government has their waybill and has made payments to the buffer stock on their behalf.
The Deputy Minister said government is focused on making sure that heads of the various SHSs are provided necessary funds and items to run their schools.
Source: 3news
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All heads of schools eho mean to sabotage the government because of their corrupt deals myst be sacked with immediate effect. We are in a hurry due to bdc destruction and can't wait for nation wreckers who want everything to be on their benefit. I don't care whether a woman or a man they must go, we can't pamper nation wreckers Ghana must be reconstructed from her destruction by those nation wreckers and any pull him back must be fired. We can't afford that living of crabs anymore we need to move forward. What effort has that woman made to put the education mnistry on their toes before opening wide her cavities? nation wrecker, NPP must be careful of those ndc surrogates in positions they don't mean well for the nation but destruction.
This woman is on of such thos heads who use the money to buy treasury bills and not pay for a long time. Now that there is check on them they are crying 1. No cocoa season for them during school admission time. computer does all 2. No bulk money coming on them. Ei, NPP 'nopese won ye den"? Won awuoooo, won awuooo, won awuoooo. They used to benefit small and big time from these, now............
Nothing has been paid to the schools after the initial 20%, please Mr Dep. Minister check your facts. its not true
this is the kind of people voted into office. they are always right they do not never go wrong even if it is going bad they should continue.they even also got peace fm and co to write for them. they should go ahead and damage educational system with their free shs.
Who is the lier here is it CHASS or the Ministry of Education . How can the Conference of Heads is Assisted Secondary Schools say that they do not have the funds from government and government is saying the money is gone . Whose report can we BELIEVE?
Who is the lier here is it CHASS or the Ministry of Education . How can the Conference of Heads is Assisted Secondary Schools say they have the funds from and government is saying the money is gone . Whose report can we BELIEVE?
Please Mr Minister, don't frustrate the Heads of SHS. Please, release the remaining amount to the Heads so that they can feed the our children.