An audit by the Auditor-General into the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has uncovered that approximately GH¢2.3 million was overpaid to caterers. Conducted between August and October 2022 at the GSFP National Secretariat in Accra and regional offices in Ashanti, Eastern, Greater Accra, Upper East, and Western, the audit spanned from 2017 to 2022.

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The audit also highlighted insufficient food provision by caterers, which failed to adequately sustain pupils throughout the school day.Since its inception in 2005, the programme has been feeding over 4 million pupils across more than 12,000 public basic schools in 216 districts. Additionally, the report identified wrongful payments totaling GH¢274,235.

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29 to uncontracted caterers and noted the failure of the national secretariat to recover GH¢831,776.00 from the sale of Caterer Application Forms.In response, the Auditor-General recommended that the National Coordinator take immediate action to identify and recover all outstanding overpayments and wrongful payments made to caterers, including funds from the sale of application forms.

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