As part of his plan to reassess the Free SHS policy, National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer John Dramani Mahama has pledged to stop the National Food Buffer Stock Company from supplying food goods to Senior High Schools.

John Mahama states that Senior High School heads will be the ones to whom feeding grants are sent in order to purchase food for their children.

John Mahama promised during his Building Ghana Tour in Kambatiak, North East Region, that if he wins the upcoming elections, food purchases for Senior High Schools would be decentralized.

“We are coming to decentralise the cooking of food for children and the procurement of food. The headmasters of the schools are going to be responsible for procuring food for the children. They are not going to sit and wait for National Buffer Stock to bring the food. If we decentralise the procurement of food, the headmasters will be able to procure the food from the farmers in the area and they will be able to buy groundnuts, they will be able to buy beans, they will be able to buy vegetables so that the children can get a nutritious diet. And so the feeding grants should not go to Buffer Stock. The feeding grants should be paid directly to the secondary schools so that the headmasters can use the money and buy nutritious food for the children. And so we are going to make Free SHS better.”