{"id":1189468,"date":"2022-08-24T20:21:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/24\/chass-accuses-government-of-being-insensitive-to-students\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T20:21:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:21:11","slug":"chass-accuses-government-of-being-insensitive-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/24\/chass-accuses-government-of-being-insensitive-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"CHASS accuses government of being insensitive to students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"CHASS accuses government of being insensitive to students\" title=\"CHASS accuses government of being insensitive to students\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The Northern Regional Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) has accused the government of being insensitive to students.<\/p>\n<p>This is in the wake of government\u2019s delay in the payment of 12 weeks\u2019 funds for perishables in various Senior High Schools (SHS).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Accra-based Citi News, Reverend Edward Azeka Williams\u00a0lamented the threats by many food suppliers to suspend supplies to schools over non-payment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently living on the benevolence of some of the suppliers. Government said we should give them two days and that they are working on it. They had earlier promised to get us the money two weeks ago. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is very insensitive on the part of government. How do you abandon these students for about 11 weeks and claim you are processing to get the funds?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the funds promised by the government have yet to be deposited into their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of now, monies are in arrears. Some schools are now in their 12th week and still haven\u2019t received any money. Some suppliers have even stopped supplying. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my school, for instance, the egg supplier has stopped, the meat supplier has threatened to stop supplying, and the firewood supplier stormed our school, and we had to find something for him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Regional Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) has accused the government of being insensitive to students. This is in the wake of government\u2019s delay in the payment of 12 weeks\u2019 funds for perishables in various Senior High Schools (SHS). Speaking in an interview with Accra-based Citi News, Reverend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[6211,21324,1090,4805,1951],"class_list":["post-1189468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-accuses","tag-chass","tag-government","tag-insensitive","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}