About GH¢2.3 million has been overpaid to caterers under the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP).
The figure was captured in the performance audit conducted by the Auditor-General on the management of the project.
The Auditor-General carried out the audit from August to October 2022 at the GSFP National Secretariat in Accra, Ashanti, Eastern, Greater Accra, Upper East, and Western Regional offices.
The audit covered the period from 2017 to 2022.
The report also revealed that the food served by the cooks was not adequate to sustain the pupils through the instructional period or school day.
According to the report, wrongful payments of GH¢274,235.29 were also made to caterers who were not under contract for the programme.
The national secretariat of the feeding programme also failed to retrieve an outstanding amount of GH¢831,776.00 realised from the sale of the Caterer Application Forms.
The Auditor-General therefore “recommended that the National Coordinator should put in place measures to identify and retrieve all the outstanding wrongful and overpayments made to caterers as well as the monies realised from the sale of the caterer application forms.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
