The CEO of National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), George Abradu-Otoo, has visited Mawuli School at Ho to acquaint himself with the food supply situation.
This is part of a two-day working visit to the Volta Region.
NAFCO and the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) supply non-perishable food to state-assisted High Schools, Technical and Vocational institutions under the Free Senior High School programme, otherwise known as Free SHS.
Accompanied by the Company’s Head of Corporate Affairs, Emmanuel J. K. Arthur; Operations Manager, Aziz Peregrino-Braimah, and the Volta Regional Manager, Bright Delali Kugbeadzor.
The NAFCO boss held discussions with school officials, including the Headmaster, Benjamin Deh, who indicated the school had adequate food stocks for students’ upkeep.
He told the visiting team that the food supply processes have seen much improvement over the last few months and expressed the hope that the gains will be further enhanced.
Mr Abradu-Otoo assured that the new leadership of the company is working hard to ensure all bottlenecks relating to the Free SHS food supplies are resolved for the programme’s smooth implementation.
“We are doing all we can to ensure the timely supply of food commodities to the schools. In doing so, it is our wish that quality and quantity are not compromised in any way”.
The team was conducted around the school’s food storage facilities.
The Buffer Stock CEO and his team later inspected the state of a Warehouse at Dzodze in the Ketu North Municipality.
The 1000 metric tonne capacity Warehouse was built by government under the One District One Warehouse initiative and is expected to be used for the storage of grains.
Ketu North Municipal Chief Executive, Rev. Martin Amenaki, who conducted the team around, said aside a few repair works, the Warehouse was in good condition to store food commodities.
He said the utilisation of the facilities will offer significant relief to farmers in the area, most of whom experienced bumper harvests.
Mr Abradu-Otoo said urgent steps were being taken to put all such facilities across the country to use for the benefit of smallholder farmers in particular and agribusiness players in general as NAFCO seeks to revamp the National Food Security Reserve (NFSR).
