The National President of Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) Master Jonathan Dzunu is calling for immediate stakeholder dialogue between National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education – Ghana (PRINCOF) and the Ministry of Education over their unpaid subventions.

The National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education – Ghana (PRINCOF) in a statement issued today has directed that teacher trainees should start preparing to fund their own feeding starting May 8, 2022.

This directive is in response to the inability of Colleges of Education to make payments for food items supplied to them. According to PRINCOF, food suppliers who had continued delivering supplies to these Colleges of Education for months without payment have finally withdrawn their services till they receive the monies owed them.

But speaking to Omanhene Yaw Adu Boakye on SompaTV morning show on Wednesday, 20^th April 2022, Master Jonathan Dzunu, maintained that failure by stakeholders to resolve the impasse immediately could further destabilize their education in the next calendar.  

“It’s very terrible and it’s getting out of hand, at a point I saw that if this issue is not addressed as early as possible, it’s going to be an issue of a national security threat because you are sending students to campus and then food is not available to them. And then don’t forget that a hungry man is an angry man” he said.

Source//sompaonline.com/Eric Asare Murphy