The caretaker Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has confidently stated that the school feeding caterer’s arrears owed by the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) will soon be paid.
The Minister made this known when answering questions at the Ministry of Gender’s turn at the Meet The Press series in Accra at the Ministry of Information.
To her, all the needed data and figures had been worked on and submitted to the Controller and Accountant General’s Department for the release of funds to pay the caterers.
“When it comes to the School Feeding payment, we have the last lot of arrears to pay. We know the figure, we’ve put it in, and it’s at the Controller…so very soon we hope to get it,” she said.
However, the Ministry of Finance, in a recent statement issued by the Management of Ghana School Feeding Programme, has already directed the Controller and Accountant General to mobilize funds for the payment of the 2020/2021 2nd term arrears to the caterers.
The said statement which was signed by the Head of Public Relations, Siiba Alfa, on behalf of the National Coordinator of GSFP, Mrs Gertrude Quashigah, also promised the caterers of the government’s commitment to pay all other arrears owed to them.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Abba Kwegyirba Aggrey
