The story of Senior High School students eating waakye without shito and fish

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October 18, 2017 11:43 AM

At the Kwabenya Senior High School where journalists visited with Parliament’s select committee on Education, the students had been served Waakye without stew or what is locally known as shito.

It has come to light that government’s Free Senior High School programme that is basically aimed at improving both standard and quality of education in the country is encountering challenges.

At the Kwabenya Senior High School in the Greater Accra Region for instance, where journalists visited with Parliament’s select committee on Education, the students had been served Waakye without stew or what is locally known as shito according to a report by Citi News.

The students were also seen eating the Waakye without gari or spaghetti as some of them expected.

One of the disappointed students said: “The government is paying for the waakye. [But] there is no shito, no meat, no macaroni, not even salad, no egg.”

Member of Parliament for Ketu South, Bernard Ahiafor who happens to be a member of the committee that paid a working visit to the school to assess the implementation of the Free SHS program, bluntly expressed his disappointment at the development.

He said: “We realized that the waakye that they were being served it with has no complement in terms of egg or fish, so that goes a long way to state categorically from what I’ve seen that there is a problem with the quality of food.”

Meanwhile, the National School Feeding Program has maintained that it provides the best meals to students. Its Public Relations Officer, Siba Alfa said his outfit constantly monitors the caterers to ensure that the quality of the food served to the pupils at the basic level is not compromised.

Per the school feeding programme, over one million school children are entitled to one hot meal per day.

The disturbing discovery comes barely few days after Accra-based Citi News reported that some students of the La Presby Senior High School, had no desks and had to resort to the use of cement blocks.

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