The Public Relations Officer (PRO), Kwasi Kwarteng has insisted that the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) certified the alleged expired rice before they were distributed to the various secondary schools.
According to him, it is therefore inaccurate for anyone to suggest that secondary school students have been fed with unwholesome rice.
Speaking in an interview on TV3's News360 on November 18, Mr Kwarteng said, "The FDA is the agency responsible for approval food consumed in the country.
It has declared that the rice was wholesome and safe for consumption." Mr Kwarteng said this in reaction to a call by the NDC caucus in Parliament for a commission of inquiry into circumstances leading to the distribution of supposedly expired bags of rice to some secondary schools, 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.