The National Coordinator for the school feeding program Dr Gertrude Quarshigah has come out to say they are against the branding of packs with “one hot meal” with faces of the parliamentary candidate and the face of the President provided for pupils writing the Basic Examination Certificate Examination (BECE) across the country.
Speaking to Joy Fm in Accra, she said her outfit is to help groom and serve the children of God so such things should be avoided.
“It came to our notice and we are on it seriously. It is not going to happen again,” She said.
Adding that it’s not proper and not moral for foods to be branded before it is distributed to young people.
Indicating that there are 256 districts containing so many schools due to this, the branding of food cannot be done everywhere.
“We don’t go by that; our systems don’t go by that but some of the women get so passionate. We are feeding children of God and as we continue to do that, we know what it entails, we are grooming a society for tomorrow and so the president’s initiative to give food to these students is so passionate and holistic and so I don’t think that will be accepted by anybody,” she further explained.
Photos of the food packs were branded with party colours of the current government with the photos of their member of parliament and the President and other videos on social media with student forced to say 4 more 4Nana before their meals were handed over to them which went viral on the social media.
This which made the Former President John Dramani Mahama to comment on it saying he didn’t understand why the county’s politics was sinking that low.
On seeing the video, the Mahama commented that “SMH! This is how low our politics have sunk”. Employ
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