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Northern
Patriots to hold protest against feeding grant
Bolgatanga, May 3, Ghanadot/GNA – The Northern Patriots in
Research and Advocacy (NORPRA) has called on all
well-meaning Ghanaians to protest against Government’s
failure to release the school feeding grant to second cycle
institutions in the three Northern Regions.
Calling specifically on students of first and second cycle
institutions and parents, NORPRA also said the demonstration
was necessary because,
government
had again failed to provide free meals and uniforms for
pupils in basic schools in the three Northern Regions as
contained in the Ghana Poverty Strategy I (GPRSI).
A statement signed by Mr Agorogo Adongo Bismark, President
of NORPRA on Saturday said, the Group has planned to stage
three demonstrations in Bolgatanga, Tamale and Wa on the
7th, 12th and 15th of May this year respectively.
It said NOPRA intended to question government why Senior
High School students in the North could not go back to
school when the economy had been described as sound, vibrant
and resilient.
Again, it said pupils in the basic schools in the North, who
would also join the demonstrations, would used the occasion
“to demand an explanation from the government why a proposed
policy in the country’s poverty reduction strategy to
provide them with free meals and uniforms has not been
implemented after the policy had been formulated six years
ago.”
The statement noted that, second cycle institutions in the
North, which should have been reopened by now, were still
closed down because school authorities do not know when the
feeding grants would be provided.
It said considering the soundness and resilience of the
economy shown by the macroeconomic indicators, it was
appropriate to conclude that the government was only being
insensitive to the educational development of the North.
The statement appealed to the public to participate in the
demonstrations in order to achieve the desired purpose.
GNA
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