{"id":364817,"date":"2017-10-24T18:32:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T18:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=364817"},"modified":"2017-10-24T18:32:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T18:32:28","slug":"angry-unpaid-school-feeding-caterers-besiege-gender-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/angry-unpaid-school-feeding-caterers-besiege-gender-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry unpaid school feeding caterers besiege Gender Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of angry caterers formerly under the Ghana School Feeding Programme, stormed the Ministry\u00a0of\u00a0Gender,\u00a0Children and Social\u00a0Protection on Tuesday morning, to demand monies owed them for the first and second terms of the 2016\/2017 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Clad in red, the caterers, who call themselves the \u2018Concerned Old Caterers of Ghana\u2019, carried placards with various inscriptions demanding immediate payment, such as \u201cWe need our money now\u201d, \u201cPay us our money now!\u201d, \u201cPay us in full\u201d and \u201cWe need our money now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>citifmonline.com<\/strong> after the protest, Dela Agbenu, one of the angry caterers, expressed frustration at the amount supposedly paid each of them for the first seven days of the first term of the 2016\/2017 academic year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-364818\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/school-feeding-protest-2.jpg\" alt=\"school-feeding-protest-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a constitution that rules Ghana, and the Labour\u00a0laws say that if somebody is working with you and you don\u2019t need the person\u2019s service again, you pay the person off before laying him or her off. You have laid us off without paying us. &#8230; We came here to see the minister to tell her that we need our money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Later on, we had to send one delegate to the office. They came back and then asked for four, so four of us went in there. The administrator spoke to us that, they are preparing to pay us and so we should exercise patience,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Akosua Ofewaa Opoku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of angry caterers formerly under the Ghana School Feeding Programme, stormed the Ministry\u00a0of\u00a0Gender,\u00a0Children and Social\u00a0Protection on Tuesday morning, to demand monies owed them for the first and second terms of the 2016\/2017 academic year. 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