Apinamang (E/R), Aug 28, GNA - The Chief of Apinamang, Osabarima Oware Asare Pinkro in the Kwaebibrem District, has appealed to government to concentrate the school feeding programme in rural areas rather than in the urban areas.
He questioned why the programme was not focussing on rural areas where poverty levels are high and many parents had to push their wards to farms or to support them in the market on market days to be able to raise resources for the family.
The chief, who was addressing a grand durbar of the people at Apinamang to climax the Akobredwa festival, said he was not happy that only two schools were benefiting from the school-feeding programme in the area.
He also called on the administrators of the school-feeding programme to ensure that the children were learning to become useful citizens in future and not in the school just for the food. Nana Pinkro urged parents to support the government in realizing its goal by providing their children with learning materials and the environment for them to have at least basic education. The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Ofosu Asamoah, expressed regret that many people in the area had not registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme.
He said the cutting of the sod for the construction of the Bui Dam by President John Agyekum Kufuor to help solve the energy crisis facing the country was an indication of government seriousness in solving the energy crisis facing the country.
