Some caterers of Ghana’s school feeding program have begun agitations over the failure of the Ministry of Finance and the government to pay their two-year arrears.
Sources have hinted that caterers under the school feeding program are owed two good terms, a move that has made it so difficult and rigid for them to repay loans they were noted to have collected from their banks to prefinance the program last year.
Meanwhile, based on these and the aforementioned, some of them are being pursued by their bankers and threatened with arrests and prosecution for failing to meet their payment modes and terms.
The last time the government paid school feeding caterers was in August 2023. It would be recalled that caterers of the school feeding program stormed the secretariat of the school feeding program to demonstrate against the Finance Ministry’s failure to pay them their arrears until a payment was made in August of the same year.
Ghana’s School Feeding Program was initiated in 2005, and it is a joint effort by the government of Ghana, the World Food Programme, and the Dutch Government. Meanwhile, the program targets children in public primary schools in Ghana, providing them with one hot meal per day throughout the school term.
