School feeding: Bagbin backs ¢3 feeding grant demand by caterers - Adomonline.com

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin says the demand by school feeding caterers to increase school feeding grants is justified.

According to the Speaker, who paid a surprise visit to the school feeding secretariat on Thursday, the ¢0.97 feeding grant to feed a school child is woefully inadequate.

For this reason, Mr Alban Bagbin called on stakeholders, including NGOs, to aid government with the national school feeding programme.

“We should all put our hands on deck and I will want to assure you that Parliament will do our bit…we will look at how we will support the school feeding secretariat to generate more revenue,” he said.

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin

The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme, Gertrude Quashigah, assured that the concerns of the caterers are being dealt with.

We rely on government for payment, and so we have assured them, we will always continue to plead with them and to encourage them and then to calm them down and to console them,” she noted.

He assured the company Parliament will ensure funds are available to the organisation to expand its capacity to stock large quantities of food for a rainy day.