By Clifford Okyere
Miss Otiko Djaba has disapproved vehemently of the treatment metered out to the workers of the Ghana school and feeding programme, citing extreme responsibility for their current ordeal.
Speaking on the scoop segment of GTV Breakfast, the former gender minister stated that the mistreatment of the school feeding programme is greatly disappointment on the part of government.
“I have made the necessary calls and petition to the ensure that the issues of the school feeding programme payment to addressed,” she noted.
She highlighted that the 97 pesewas per child for the preparation of a hot, nutritious meal was a far-fetched measure under the programme but not paying them for their service was a ludicrous move because their service, as she described it, was not “God’s voluntary work, neither is it a favour, but on contract basis” which needed to be honoured.
Background
The workers of the school feeding programme are currently agitating for the government to settle their arrears over unpaid working conditions. Miss Otiko Afisa Djaba has been a proactive force of support for the programme since its inception in 2005, with the goal of increasing enrollment, ending malnutrition, and providing wealth for the cooks and other stakeholders. During her tenure as gender minister, she aided in the improvement of the sector as she sought the rise in pay per child and also helped in the recruitment of workers into the service, hence her extreme passion to have workers of the scheme, have decent working conditions.
