The Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei-Adutwum has confirmed that government owes the National Food Buffer Stock Company an outstanding amount of GH¢ 340 million.
The government’s indebtedness to the company and other factors has occasioned a shortage of food items in some high schools in the country.
Responding to questions in Parliament, Dr Osei-Adutwum said the government was working towards clearing the debt and ending the food shortage in Senior High Schools.
He noted that the government has paid over GH¢327 million to the company this year to ensure food supply to schools.
“Upper West and all the regions where there was a crisis in the last few days, they have all seen improvement in terms of supplies that are coming to them, and they will continue to see improvements from today on.”
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