Chairman of the local government and rural development committee of parliament, Dominic Azumah has urged government to motivate workers at the school feeding secretariat to keep the programme from running down.
According to him workers at the secretariat are not pleased about their working conditions there, adding that they are “losing enthusiasm.”
“The staff are not properly pleased in the sense that they are not robed into the proper civil service structure,” he disclosed.
This call follows investigations by the local government and rural development committee in parliament, which revealed that the staff at the Secretariat are de-motivated due to the pittance they receive as salaries
[contextly_sidebar id=”bNHwALzRUtNl5f5C1iwrOg3WRcYXaPyE”]The workers at the school feeding secretariat argued that their salaries are nothing to write home about.
In an interview with Citi news the Chairman of the local government and rural development committee of parliament, Dominic Azumah revealed that the workers are paid with monies received from the common fund adding “what happens is that whatever amount is released from the common fund to the school feeding secretariat one percent of that amount is used to pay the staff of the school feeding secretariat.”
He expressed worries over the development, saying “there salary is nothing to write home about and because of that they don’t appear to be energized or excited doing the job.”
According to the chairman the situation is greatly affecting the secretariat from the top worker to the least.
“Even the school feeding coordinator himself his salary is nothing to write home about even though he is one of the top class officers we have. These critical areas are affecting the performance of the school feeding programme,” he bemoaned.
The school feeding programme is believed to be in shambles as caterers under the programme have not been paid for sometime now.
The caterers earlier this year threatened to stop preparing meals for the pupils if the GSFP failed to release money to them within two weeks.
By: Patricia Conteh/citifmonline.com/Ghana