“I want to serve notice that the Minority will challenge it because we think that it should not be allowed to go and this is not a charge for only the minority,” the MP for Sagnarigu, A.B.A Fuseini said on Eyewitness News.

He viewed this directive from the government as not being conformity to the laws of this country and “there is a collective duty on all of us as Ghanaians to get up and oppose this obnoxious policy and make sure the right thing is done.”

“The country does not belong to NPP people alone. It belongs to all people and we all have the right to apply for any job anywere… it should not be reserved for particular people because they are members of a political party. it is unacceptable.”

No incompetent caterers

Also at stake is the physical well-being of the school children, according to Mr. Fuseini, and the government should not be compromising on the quality of the caterers.

“We are talking about food, something very important in the lives of our children. You can’t have very bad and unhygienic incompetent caterers and they will compromise the lives of our children.”

“…this is a thing they are awarding to NPP [members] without even having the opportunity to take them throughout a rigorous process where they can be screened and on the basis of competence, we award it to the best people who can do the best job.”

The new guidelines for the selection of caterers will take effect from the 2017/2018 academic year which begins September in 2017.

The Gender Ministry also charged the MMDCEs to also engage more women activists, women executives, queen-mothers among others as caterers for the programme.

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The School Feeding Programme has earmarked 30 percent of the schools in each district as a protocol allocation for the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, according to a letter sighted by citifmonline.com.

[contextly_sidebar id=”hBOGLNSqZZ4Dlc0miIovbULxF5ElnUx9″]Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Fuseini said: “this is a situation where they want to just carve out some jobs and leave them for only NPP members and sympathisers and supporters.”

He asserted that this allocation was a violation of the constitution of the republic and “a violation of the oath President Nana Akufo-Addo swore at the Independence Square at his induction ceremony, that he was going to treat all Ghanaians fairly.”

The President had a duty to ensure that nobody was discriminated on the grounds of political party colours, according to the opposition National Democratic Congress MP, but, “today this is being violated in his face.”

He explained that the NPP government has been harassed because of its “empty promises” to create jobs and “has come under severe pressure from members of its own ranks.”

Though the document makes no mention of NPP supporters, he insisted that section making references to women activists pertained to NPP members.

The Gender Ministry charged the MMDCEs to engage more women activists, women executives, queen-mothers among others as caterers for the programme in the letter.

“The NPP has been on a vindictive campaign across the country to depopulate state institutions of people who they could not certify were NPP members,” Mr. Fusseini stated.

“Why would they sack all currently existing caterers under the school feeding programme? If they intended to stretch their hands to Ghanaians as a whole you would have left that 30 percent who are in place and fill in the rest. They want to depopulate the entire sector and bring in NPP members. Obviously, they cannot just spell it in black and white that the activists should be NPP but it is unmistaken.”

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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