[ 2016-05-26 ]

Pupils reject School Feeding Programme
Drama unfolded when pupils of the Asante Mampong
Methodist Primary A and B School in the Ashanti
region rejected food prepared for them by caterers
in-charge of the School Feeding Programme on
Monday.

Caterers of the government intervention programme
in the school reportedly had a shock of their
lives when the children told them in plain
language that they would not eat the
‘sub-standard’ food they had been served.

The children reportedly complained bitterly that
the banku and soup that had been prepared for them
for lunch lacked key ingredients and so they would
not eat it.

Reports reaching this paper indicated that the
students often suffered stomach upsets whenever
they ate meals prepared by the caterers, so they
decided to reject the food this time around in
their own interest.

The action by the students, which has never
happened in the area before, was immediately
reported to the school authorities who in turn
informed the Mampong Municipal Assembly.

Speaking on Otec FM on Monday, Mark Ababio,
headmaster of the Asante Mampong Methodist Primary
A and B, confirmed that indeed the food prepared
by the caterers usually lacked key ingredients.

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According to him, aside the soup prepared by the
caterers being tasteless, the students had
consistently complained of suffering from diarrhea
whenever they ate the meals.

He said he gathered that the caterer used less
than GH¢2 worth of tomatoes to prepare soup for
about 600 students on Monday “but when I asked
the caterer she debunked the report saying she
used GH¢3 worth of tomatoes instead.”

Mr. Ababio said he was surprised that the caterer
could boldly say that she used GH¢3 worth of
tomatoes to prepare soup for such a colossal
number of students, noting that the students were
right in rejecting the poorly prepared food.

The headmaster disclosed that he had personally
told the caterer to improve the quality of food
that she prepares for the children, but nothing
had changed until the students decided not to
consume the sub-standard food anymore on Monday.

Meanwhile, DAILY GUIDE has gathered that the
Asante Mampong Municipal Assembly had hurriedly
instituted a committee to investigate the
circumstances which led to the pupils rejecting
the poorly prepared food.

Source - dailyguideafrica.com

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