Some caterers working for the Ghana Schools Feeding Program (GSFP) has begun agitations over the failure of the Ministry of Finance and the government to pay them their two term arrears.
Sources have hinted that caterers under the school feeding program are owed up to two terms, a development that has made it difficult for them to repay loans they took from their banks to pre-finance the program last year.
Based on these some of them are being pursued by their bankers and are being threatened with arrests and prosecutions for failing to meet their payment terms.
The last time the government paid School feeding caterers was in August 2023. It would be recalled that caterers of the program stormed the secretariat of the to demonstrate against the Finance Ministry’s failure to pay them their areas until a payment was made in August of the same year.
Ghana’s School Feeding Programme was initiated in 2005, – a joint effort by the Government of Ghana, the World Food Programme (WFP), and the Dutch Government. The program targets children in public primary schools in Ghana, providing them with one hot meal per day during the school term.