John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has pledged to revise the Free SHS policy by discontinuing the supply of food items to Senior High Schools by the National Food Buffer Stock Company. Instead, he proposes that feeding grants be directed through the heads of Senior High Schools for the procurement of food items for students.

While on his Building Ghana Tour in Kambatiak, North East Region, Mahama promised that if he wins the upcoming elections, the procurement of food items for Senior High Schools will be decentralized.

He stated, “We are coming to decentralise the cooking of food for children and the procurement of food. The headmasters of the schools are going to be responsible for procuring food for the children. They are not going to sit and wait for National Buffer Stock to bring the food. If we decentralise the procurement of food, the headmasters will be able to procure the food from the farmers in the area and they will be able to buy groundnuts, they will be able to buy beans, they will be able to buy vegetables so that the children can get a nutritious diet. And so the feeding grants should not go to Buffer Stock. The feeding grants should be paid directly to the secondary schools so that the headmasters can use the money and buy nutritious food for the children. And so we are going to make Free SHS better.”