No headteacher in any of the schools in which pupils are sitting their Basic Education Examination Certificate (BECE) has complained about the quality of food being served their pupils, the Minister of Gender, Child and Social Protection, Mrs Cynthia Morrison has said.
“So far, no headmaster has called me to complain about the quality of food being served the pupils”, she told Kwabena Prah Jr on Accra100.5FM’s morning show Ghana Yensom on Wednesday, 26 August 2020.
Social media has been awash with pictures and videos of some pupils complaining about the poor quality of the food served them.
While some said it was bland, others claimed was salty.
However, the minister told Prah Jr that: “If you send me a picture of the food they claim is not tasty, I can’t verify from it”.
According to her, “I can only rely on the headmaster’s report but what is circulating on social media could be mischief”.
She admitted seeing one video on social in which some identifiable pupils in the Ashanti Region were complaining about the food and promised to follow up on that immediately.
The minister, however, pointed out that there are some other videos in which the pupils cannot be identified, “so, it could be mischief, it could be true”.
She also said: “If we are cooking for pupils across the whole country and only two or three places are complaining, then it means things are going on very well in the majority of the schools”.
Source: GhanaFeed.Com
