No compensation will be given for procured foodstuff – Gender minister to sacked caterers

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Dr Agnes Naa Momo Lartey, has clarified the government’s presumption pursuing the termination of each contracts nether the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), urging calm and emphasising the request for a creaseless transition.

In an interrogation connected Channel One TV and monitored by GhanaWeb connected Thursday, May 8, 2025, she explained that though the determination comes arsenic a daze to some, affected caterers person been alert of challenges and inconsistencies successful the system.

“You are pleading for clip to modulation smoothly, it doesn't mean you should conscionable permission the strategy arsenic it is. They cognize they person the accidental to reapply if they are interested,” she stated.

She explained that galore caterers had not been consistently fulfilling their obligations, peculiarly during the just-ended schoolhouse term.

“Most of them were not cooking, and they are precise overmuch alert they were not cooking. Some excessively were cooking, but not consistently,” she noted.

Addressing complaints from immoderate caterers who claimed to person already made purchases successful anticipation of the caller term, she made it wide that nary compensation would beryllium fixed for losses incurred.

“I sympathise with the situation, there's nary country for compensation, but for the play that they person cooked, they volition beryllium paid,” she assured.

A connection issued by the GSFP National Coordinator, Hajia Fati Forgor, connected May 2, 2025, formally announced the contiguous termination of each existing contracts.

“No existing caterer connected the programme should navigator for the 3rd word of the 2024/2025 world year,” the connection read.

The GSFP assured that each arrears for the 2nd word volition beryllium paid and confirmed that caller recruitment guidelines volition beryllium announced arsenic portion of an wide restructuring of the program.

Meanwhile, President of the Concerned School Feeding Caterers Association, Gifty Asamoah, says members person already procured each foodstuffs for the term.

“You person seen the foodstuffs we person purchased — fish, groundnuts, and others person been bought from Ejura. The foodstuffs were to beryllium shared among us, but we had to halt the motortruck aft receiving the caller information. We person mislaid a batch of money,” she lamented.

According to caterers nether the School Feeding Program, they had initially decided to suspend their services aft the alteration of government.

However, the determination was rescinded aft receiving connection asking them to implicit the 2024/2025 world year.

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