{"id":98575,"date":"2015-03-11T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=98575"},"modified":"2015-03-11T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:06:18","slug":"kibi-school-for-the-deaf-likely-to-shut-down-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/03\/kibi-school-for-the-deaf-likely-to-shut-down-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Kibi school for the deaf to shut down if&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities of the Kibi School for the deaf in the Eastern Region might close down the school by Friday if government fails to pay outstanding arrears owed the school.<\/p>\n<p>Food suppliers have refused to deliver food items to the school because of outstanding debts.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;J6pW8TuVOSMV7rgDy2Lmfk1KqE9JFGpF&#8221;]School authorities say they have not received funds from government since October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a0Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has reportedly also cut power supply to the school because it owes the former over five thousand ghana cedis.<\/p>\n<p>The Accountant at the school, Bismark Appiah, who spoke to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> insisted that they will have no choice than to shut down the school if government fails to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how people expect us to operate.We are in the third month now and we have not received our feeding funds. We have not received a penny and I don\u2019t know how people expect us to feed students from morning till evening<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in darkness for over two weeks now and no help has not come from anywhere. The last time we had some feeding grant was in October last year and that was even a portion of it. Up till now we have not finished paying it,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He said though some food suppliers provided food for the school last term,it &#8221; could not pay them a penny\u00a0so most of our students feed on gari beans.. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/06\/26\/govt-owes-5000-school-feeding-caterers\/#sthash.n6Y85O18.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>non payment of arrears<\/strong><\/span><\/a> has been lingering for sometime now.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) was indebted to 5,000 caterers to the tune of GH\u00a2100 million feeding fee for the 2013\/2014 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The arrears comprised a 40-day outstanding payment of the first term and the outstanding payment for the whole of the 71 days in the second term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities of the Kibi School for the deaf in the Eastern Region might close down the school by Friday if government fails to pay outstanding arrears owed the school. 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