More than GH¢2m overpaid to school feeding caterers between 2017-2022 – Report

A
performance
audit
conducted
by
the
Auditor-General
on
the
management
of
the
Ghana
School
Feeding
Programme
(GSFP)
has
uncovered
that
about
GH¢2.3
million
has
been
overpaid
to
caterers.

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.

It
was
also
uncovered
that
the
food
served
by
the
cooks
was
not
adequate
to
sustain
the
pupils
through
the
instructional
period
or
school
day.

The
programme
which
was
launched
in
2005
currently
feeds
over
4
million
pupils
in
over
12,000
public
basic
schools
in
216
districts.

Wrongful
payments
were
also
made
to
caterers
who
were
not
under
contract
for
the
programme
to
the
tune
of
GH¢274,235.29.

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.




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