The Minority in Parliament has disclosed that the funding for the capitation grant is in arrears of over six terms which translates into over two years.
A Deputy Ranking member of the Education Committee, Dr. Clement Apaak, the Member of Parliament for Builsa South, brought this to the attention of the House on Wednesday, December 21, 2022.
He also accused the government of cutting funding to the grant and feeding, a situation he lamented could affect the quality of teaching and learning, at the basic level.
”We know the foundation is at the basic level. Mr. Speaker, it doesn’t look like a lot is being done to ensure that basic education continues to thrive. As I speak to you now, the government owes capitation grant in excess of six terms. That is about two years. Mr. Speaker it will sadden you to know that if we were to look at the arrears for 2022, it is in excess of Gh45 million, and the requested allocation for 2023 which is nothing above Ghc61 million, and you juxtapose that with the allocation given by the Ministry, which is Ghc11 million, Mr. Speaker clearly how are basic schools in the country exp0ected to function?”
The lawmaker indicated that the current administration has consistently failed to commit to ensuring the successful running of the education sector.
He said heads of some schools are running from creditors because they had been taking loans to run the schools, and yet the government has failed to pay them.
He stated that one would have thought that a lot more resources would have been allocated to defray the arrears and to make room for next year, but that failed to happen.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
