Education Ministry downplays reports of food shortages in SHSs

The Education Ministry has downplayed concerns being raised about shortage of food items in secondary schools in parts of the country.

Speaking on Eyewitness News, the Ministry’s PRO, Kwasi Kwarteng, said his ministry has “not had any such official complaint.”

Despite reports indicating that certain schools currently lack key ingredients like bread and oil for meals, Mr. Kwarteng also said reports about shortages could also be considered alerts for the future.

Some school heads and parents have been making appeals for the public and the government to assist with food items to help improve the quality of feeding in public second-cycle schools.

“When you hear the issue about the shortage, they are kind of cautions ahead of the future, so it is not necessarily that, at the moment, we are seeing that there are shortages,” he explained.

He however admitted that there may be delays in transporting food, though he again added that “that does not necessarily construe into a food shortage as is interpreted out there.”

On reports coming from schools with challenges, Mr. Kwawrteng said his ministry “would be so glad to have the list of the schools, intervene and make sure supplies have been made there