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National Coordinator for the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Patrick Acheampong has said they would in no time cancel their contracts with caterers who do not prepare well foods they serve school children.

According to him this would be done after a thorough investigation have been done about the caterer in question without their knowledge.

“We would take back contracts from caterers who do not cook healthy food, even after we have increased the payment we give them per child, from 50 to 80 pesewas,” he said in an interview on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’.

He said the GSFP consists of children from kindergarten to primary 6, with the greatest motive to serve them good food containing the needed nutrition for children within our targeted category.

“Our target now is to increase the amount of schools that benefit from the programme from 39.6% where it is now, representing over five thousand students to 65.9% percent . . .” he said.

Mr. Acheampong indicated that authorities of the School Feeding Programme are yet to send to parliament laws that would be binding it for approval since its existence.

“We get technological support from donors of the project, but those funds are meant for the cooking of the food because we are now classified as a middle income country,” he said.

An initiative of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Pillar 3 of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the GSFP is part of Ghana’s efforts towards the United Nations Millennium Development Goals on hunger, poverty and primary education.