The Minister of Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, has revealed that the payment processes for food suppliers would begin on Monday, July 17.

Before this announcement, members of the National Food Suppliers Association had staged a four-day protest by picketing at the National Food Buffer Stock Company.

Their objective was to demand payment for the food items they had supplied to senior high schools nationwide.

The spokesperson for the Association, Kwaku Amedume, expressed the hope that the government would fulfill its commitment to settle the outstanding payments, as his members eagerly await a resolution to the matter.

“The Minister met us on Friday and gave us some assurances, but it doesn’t mean that we left the place because of those assurances. We left because we believed that we have created much awareness in demanding our money from the government and the Buffer Stock Company has admitted its indebtedness to us and has promised to pay by July 17, and we hope the government is able to pay as it has promised.”