...Ministry schemes to cover it up

The lives of thousands of SSS students nationwide are in serious danger resulting from the eating of expired food products that are being deliberately cooked for them by some schools in the country. The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, is busily trying to cover-up the case in a bid to avoid a major embarrassment.

This matter was recently brought to the open when the Standards Board at Tamale seized a quantity of Soya Beans Cooking Oil from the Tamale Secondary School on 5th March 2004, after a tip off by some individuals that the school was feeding expired Soya Bens cooking oil to the students.

The expired Soya beans cooking oil was part of a consignment of food donated to the government of Ghana by the Italian government a few years ago, and was only recently distributed to some second cycle schools nationwide.

At the time the Standards Board seized the Soya beans cooking oil from the Tamale Secondary school, it had expired for nearly a year.

Indications are that so many other second cycle schools in the country have also been involved in feeding these expired food products to their students and the wide scale nature of the problem accounts for the desperate efforts the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports is making to keep the story from reaching the general public.

Meanwhile sources close to the Northern Region Police Command indicate that the Tamale Police are investigating the case with a view to bringing those officials of the school, and nay other person who may be found to be involved to book.