Senior High School students have been notified that henceforth, they will be responsible for their feeding as food shortage hit several schools across the country according to a new report.
The seeming bad news was conveyed by the Conference of Heads of Assisted Schools (CHASS) who asked parents to be on the alert about this development and start feeding their wards if the government continues to shirk its responsibilities.
The situation developed owing to non-payment of outstanding debt, the Buffer StockmCompany., the body that supplies food to senior high schools, is not in the position to carry on with the duty.
CHASS has subsequently released a statement to this effect, an excerpt of which has been shared below;
“If sufficient money and food is not received in the schools by Friday, 15th July 2022, we will be compelled to tell parents and guardians to either feed their wards or come for them since it will be impossible to continue feeding them with nothing.”
All sporting and cultural activities at the school, District, Regional and National levels are hereby suspended with immediate effect until further notice since there is no money to carry out these activities.
We also consider it a health hazard to compel students to partake in these activities on hungry stomachs fearing that they may collapse during the activities.”
All workshops and other activities which involve the payment of money should be suspended since it is becoming impossible for schools to pay for these activities.
“In fact, an assessment of the situation indicated that most schools cannot go beyond one week if nothing urgent is done about it.”