Education Minister Dr. Yaw Adutwum
The Education Minister, Yaw Adutwum, has refuted reports that there’s been a food shortage at the Presbyterian Boys Secondary School (PRESEC).
The Minister said this after personally touring the school to pick first-hand information over reported food shortages in some senior high schools.
He also assessed the evening classes of the students, and as usual of him, he taught the students Mathematics.
After his visit, he wrote in a Facebook post, “Today, I paid a surprise visit to the Presbyterian Boys Senior High School (PRESEC) in Legon, to interact with the students, some members of staff and the headmaster.
It was fun spending time with the first-year students of the school during their evening prep. My unannounced visit to the school gave me a rare opportunity to assess how their evening studies are organized.
In one of the classes, we studied mathematics together. The students and the headmaster denied claims making rounds in some sections of the media that Presec was experiencing food shortages. It was a pleasant surprise visit, and I had a wonderful time at one of the finest Senior High Schools in the country.”
The Ghana National Association of Teachers has admonished the government to address food shortages in some Senior High Schools.
The General Secretary of the GNAT, Thomas Musah, wants the government to treat concerns about food shortages in some Senior High Schools as a genuine emergency.
“When we bring these things up, it is not to bring somebody down, but it is to bring to the attention of the duty bearers that the conditions under which our children are learning in our SHSs and our basic schools are not the best.”
Mr Musah said the complaints came from Eastern, Ashanti, Northern, and Central regions.