Government says Senior High Schools across the country have started receiving food supplies from the National Food Buffer Stock Company.
According to the Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Buffer Stock company has given assurances it would frequently supply food to the schools to avoid the usual food shortages recorded.
This comes after the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools in the Northern Region threatened to close down schools due to the non-release of funds for food items by the government.
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Meanwhile, the Chairman of CHASS in the Northern Region, Reverend Edward Azeka Williams said although some of the schools have started receiving the food items, “they will be compelled to restrict students expected in the schools on September 4 from coming to school if the eleven-week funds needed for the running of the schools are not paid as promised by the government.”
