{"id":160886,"date":"2015-10-20T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T11:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=160886"},"modified":"2015-10-20T11:46:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T11:46:31","slug":"ndc-has-destroyed-school-feeding-programme-s-k-boafo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/ndc-has-destroyed-school-feeding-programme-s-k-boafo\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC has destroyed School Feeding Programme \u2013 S.K Boafo"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Minister of State\u00a0under the erstwhile Kufuor administration, S.K Boafo, has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration of \u201cdestroying\u201d the School Feeding Programme.<\/p>\n

In 2005, the then New Patriotic Party (NPP) government in collaboration with the Dutch government, started a school feeding programme\u00a0known as the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP).<\/p>\n

But since 2012, the managers of the programme have been struggling to effectively<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0<\/span>sustain\u00a0with it due to low budgetary allocation, poor nutritional content, and the non-payment of salaries of the caterers, among others.<\/p>\n

S.K Boafo on Time with Legends \u00a0segment on the Citi Breakfast Show,\u00a0<\/strong>blamed the NDC for the current challenges bedeviling the programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the people who started the School Feeding Programme but they [NDC] have destroyed it. Is the school feeding programme working,\u201dhe queried.<\/p>\n

Click on audio to listen to full interview with Citi Breakfast Show host, Bernard Avle<\/strong><\/p>\n