The Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak says the government has failed to prioritize education in the country.
This comes on the back of scores of caterers on the school feeding programme in the Ashanti region who were left in a shock, when the Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah snubbed them, on Monday April 3, 2023.
The aggrieved traders had gone to the Regional Coordinating Council to present a petition.
For weeks now these caterers in Ashanti region have been protesting for the release of payments which is almost a year in arrears, and an upward adjustment of the allocation fee, from 97 pesewas per head to GHc3.
They have attributed the demand for adjustment to hikes in prices of food stuff and other food commodities on market.
Commenting on the development on Starr News the lawmaker questioned why the government can neglect education and use public funds for other ventures.
“The question some of us have continued to ask is why for example we will owe school feeding caterers we are not making any efforts to pay them. But the government deem it fit to use taxpayers’ money in excess of three hundred million Ghana cedis towards the construction of personally pledge Cathedral?” Mr. Apaak asked.
He continued: “Then you will also juxtapose with what many of us considered as the misuse of public resources with regards to the President chartering and flying in private jets. So if you want the truth it is that the government simply has failed not to prioritize what is most basic and most important as far as Ghanaians are concerned. It is so simple, there is no other explanation to it.”
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM
