The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) on Saturday, July 9,2022, has said that students will be compelled to feed themselves if the government refuses to send money to schools by Friday, July 15, 2022.

According to CHASS, the main food suppliers, Buffer Stock Company, are refusing to supply food to schools due to outstanding money owed them by the government.

“This has led to serious food shortages in all schools in the region. In fact assessment of the situation indicated that most Senior High Schools (SHS) cannot go beyond one week if nothing urgent is done about it."

According to the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools, it will be most appropriate and healthier to ask students to go home to prevent students from fainting or collapsing while undertaking certain activities on an empty stomach.

CHASS claims schools can only feed students with the only available food in stock while students are also coming to the dining hall with their provisions.

The Upper West Regional CHASS further stated that, “If sufficient money and food are not received in the schools by Friday, July 15, 2022, we will be compelled to tell parents to either feed their wards or come for them since it will be impossible to continue to feed them.”

According to the Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools, the outgoing students who have a few days to write their final examination will either feed themselves or come from home to write the examination due to the food shortage in schools.

“All sporting activities and cultural activities at the school, District, Regional and National levels are hereby suspended with immediate effect until further notice since

there is no money to carry out these activities.

We have therefore held on with all activities that may require payment of money, since we may not be able to pay our stakeholders.

Source: The Independent Ghana