Free SHS must not mean feeding students with junk food

The Former President of Ghana, John Dramani has described the quality of food served Free SHS students as food that is unfit for dogs. This has led to reactions from some persons and officers who are sympathizers of the ruling NPP.

In a democratic society, every one has the right to express their views about things that are not working just as those working and the former president did exactly that.

Free SHS must not mean feeding students with junk food or food that even dogs do not eat in our homes. No matter how bitter the truth was in his statement, he nailed it the right way.

The government must work on the quality of food served our students and bring it to the best standard if it does not want to be accused of poor quality food. It is as simple as it is.

The Free SHS is a laudable idea and a lifesaver for many parents and students, but it must not become a place where learners are fed with junk food by the government.

To hear some members of the government, the ruling NPP party and other members of society argue that, parents must not be ungrateful and that they should not complain about the inefficiencies is a sad posture.

The Free SHS is funded with the resources of the state, but that does not mean citizens must not complain about the inefficiencies.

There is the need to introduce total quality management standards into the every facet of the Free SHS if we want to improve on it and ensure that, the best is served our learners from the classrooms to the dinning halls.

Learners need to be fed good and nutritious meals fit for humans no matter what, especially when the government has decided to curry the burden of expenditure on nearly every cost item associated with the Free SHS.

For persons calling on the Former President to apologize for making the bitter truth known. The question is, do you feed your selves in your various homes with that kind of food served this young men and women in school?

The funds allocated to each learner in secondary school for the purposes of feeding them on a daily basis is less than GHS5.00. How many of us can spend GHS5.00 on feeding a day at home or at work.

It is laughable to hear some educated minds argue that, some of these learners would not have got the food meant for dogs if they were at home, and that no one should complain.

This kind of thinking defeats the usefulness of educated minds, which should be thinking quality and efficiency and offer better suggestions for the swift improvement in the Free SHS policy.  The problems related to feeding of the students have been with us for too long, and anyone who feels it Ghanaians should not complain must bow their heads in shame.

Find out from those in government and in higher political positions how much they pay for feeding of their children in private and international schools a month, and compare the cost and quality of food to what the same people are championing in our secondary schools.

If the government is tired of feeding quality meals, there is no harm in calling on parents to support the funding of the feeding component of the Free SHS to help improve on the quality of food served our future leaders in SHS.

Free SHS must not mean feeding students with junk food.