Kufuor under Fire

... favoured the Ashanti Region in school feeding programme
Mr Michael Kenneth Nsowah, National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has stabbed former President Kufuor in the back, describing his school feeding programme as politically biased. He also described the tenure of his predecessor Amoako Tuffuor as a complete failure replete with administrative lapses.

Mr Michael Nsowah, who was last year asked by the Kufuor government to take over from then embattled Amoako Tuffuor, said the programme was manipulated by the former government to favour the Ashanti Region. He said the Kumasi metropolis alone had 96 schools benefiting from the programme.

Comparing it to what happened in other parts of the country, the Coordinator noted that it would be a great eye saw.

For instance, the whole of the Upper East and West regions recorded 22 and 17 respectively in terms of the recorded programmes. The National Coordinator was speaking in an interview with newsmen.

According to him, with the government’s strong interference in the programme, the Tuffuor-led administration did not get a free hand to perform its functions.

Speaking in respect of a contract which was awarded to Mrs. Adjoa Mensah Kwakye, a caterer but later taken away from her and awarded to a new person at Bodomase by the GSFP and the Sekyere Afram Plains District Assembly in the Ashanti Region, he described the whole process as illegal.

He chastised the Tuffuor administration, saying rightful procedures were not followed in awarding contracts. He assured that he would as his staff to look into the case. “The former administration made grievous and unpardonable mistakes by refusing to work in collaboration with Ghana Education Service.

(GES) who have the full records of al the schools within the country and would be in the better position to give accurate figures on most of deprived schools in the most remote areas” he added.

Mr Nsowah said it was unfortunate that the procedures and allocations made by the previous administration were replete with corruption. Mr Nsowah said in some cases enrolment figures were bloated by officials. He said his administration would stop the process carried out by the Tuffuor’s administration.