{"id":402575,"date":"2018-02-19T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=402575"},"modified":"2018-02-19T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:01:59","slug":"monitor-free-shs-food-items-strictly-er-minister-to-shs-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/monitor-free-shs-food-items-strictly-er-minister-to-shs-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitor Free SHS food items strictly – E\/R Minister to SHS heads"},"content":{"rendered":"
Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfour has charged heads of the various Senior High Schools in the region to monitor foodstuffs meant for the preparation of meals for students in their respective schools.<\/p>\n
This, according to Mr. Darfour will help prevent persons responsible for these items from stealing them as has been reported in some schools, following the implementation of the Free SHS programme.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”a0u3KQl8tLdujCKdJYqqF0PQ723QO30E”]Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, the Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfour strict monitoring of the use of the items by the Heads of the Schools would nip the problem in the bud.<\/p>\n \u201cInstitutions are headed by management and they run with rules and regulations and they have a regional director who is directly responsible for the administrations of the schools…They must institute their own internal mechanisms to make sure that these things do not happen but being a human institution, sometimes one or two things will happen,\u201d Mr. Darfour said.<\/p>\n Buipe SHS matron arrested\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n There have been a number of reports of pilfering by some matrons in various schools including the Ghana Secondary Senior High School and Buipe Senior High Schools<\/p>\n In October 2017, the Matron of Buipe SHS in the Gonja District of the Northern Region was arrested for allegedly stealing foodstuffs belonging to the school.<\/p>\n