MP FOR AMENFI EAST, HON. NICHOLAS AMANKWAH BESEECHS SECOND DEPUTY SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT TO FOLLOW UP ON HIS FILED QUESTIONS TO THE MINISTRY FOR GENDER, CHILDREN AND SOCIAL PROTECTION.
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Hon. Nicholas Amankwah MP for Amenfi East , on Friday 17th June, 2022 drew the 2nd Deputy Speaker’s attention over vital questions filed under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection which could not find space in the day’s order paper and the business statement which was read.
His quiz was about the extension of school feeding program to some schools in his constituency; the schools involved are Tamaklo Basic School , Nsuaem Basic School, Sushenso Basic School, Junction Basic School, Buraso Basic School, Wassa Kumasi Basic School and so forth.
Hon. MinisterSarah Adwoa Safo
After the report, the lawmaker Hon Nicholas Amankwah in a conversation with Wassaman Insider said that most public basic schools in the Amenfi East municipality have been recording absenteeism over feeding issues since school reopened. We have some pupils absenting themselves over the caterers' absence. They are not going to school because there is no food for them. Unfortunately, in some instances, teachers had to provide launch for some pupils so they could be attentive in class, “He fumed”.
I have had the opportunity to interact with most of the headmasters, teachers and the school children, and I can tell you that majority of them are not happy about the issue. They feel disillusioned, marginalized and neglected by the government delay of the feeding program in their schools in view of the low numbers they have been recording since the reopening of school.
According to the lawmaker, now checks by some Headmasters in the municipality indicate that scores of the people have stop schooling due to the inability of their parents to give them money for lunch, whiles some of them says that the money their parent give them aren’t enough to take care of their breakfast and launch and so the situation makes it difficult for them to come to school some days in the week, “The lawmaker bemoaned.
Hon Nicholas Amankwah, ended by saying, “that the school feeding programme holds a greater potential to accelerate Ghana’s progress towards the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals on hunger, poverty, and malnutrition.
It is, therefore, exigent that government and stakeholders prioritise addressing issues affecting the efficient implementation of the programme in the municipality while instituting sustainable measures to avert the delay of the implementation.
I decorously urge the Ministry for Gender and Children Protection to heed to the legitimate questions filed to them to address the grievances of the headmasters, teachers and the school children, who rely on the school feeding programme to be able to stay in school in the municipality”.
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