The Minority in Parliament has called on President Akufo-Addo to establish an independent commission of inquiry to investigate the alleged distribution of contaminated rice to Senior High Schools (SHS) across the country.
The opposition MPs, led by North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, argue that the Ministry of Education cannot be trusted to conduct an impartial probe into the matter.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has therefore called for urgent national medical screening of all senior high schools students who have ingested the "contaminated rice". "We would like to use this medium to wake up respectfully all those institutions particularly the Ghana Health Service, the Ministry of Health who have been silent on this matter so far.
There is the need for an urgent national medical screening exercise and we would endorse that," Ablakwa stated.