Ms Cynthia Morrison the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection has hit out at some teachers who complain about the food they receive from caterers implementing the School Feeding Programme.
The Minister speaking at a capacity building workshop in the Kwabre East municipality of the Ashanti Region said the School feeding programme is meant for pupils and the caterers are only doing the teachers a favour.
This was after one of the caterers raised issues with persistent complaints from some teachers about the food served them said, "there are about 36 teachers in every school, which is equivalent to one full class of students. We hope the government will address this issue so that they will be content with the little we offer them."
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Reacting to the concerns of the caterers, the Ministers for Gender, Children and Social Protection said caterers feed teachers at an extra cost to themselves so the teachers should lower their expectations.
"If the caterers are giving them (teachers) food, then they (teachers) are only doing them a favour. They were not originally part of the concept. The food is supposed to be for the school children and so if they are partaking in it then they should take whatever is given to them," she told JoyNews.
"There are a lot of teachers and we are expected to give them food. These teachers sometimes demand special preference, demanding meats and stuff, which is beyond what we are supposed to provide. Meanwhile, they're not part of this feeding programme," she said.
She also hinted on the fact that some people tend to paint a bad picture of the school feeding programme.
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"Occasionally, you hear of bad food somewhere and the media carries it as if it is everywhere. And I'm glad you are here, go around and look at the food. But you know bad news sells, so with what we have seen today, spread the news that School Feeding is doing very well," she urged journalists.