The Binduri Community Day Senior High School in the Upper East Region has been closed due to student protests over a lack of food.
On Tuesday, July 11, 2023, several upset students boycotted classes to protest and express their dissatisfaction with the school administration’s inability to serve them with the one hot meal each day for some time already.
According to sources within the school, the caterer stationed at the school has been unable to cook for the children since May 29, 2023, leaving the pupils to their own fate.
During the demonstration against the events at the school, some kids stated that they were suffering since they had been refused their daily food for more than a month.
saying what is very worrying is that due to the shortage of food, we have been compelled one kind of food throughout the whole week”.
One of the said “ it is very sad that we are sometimes forced to eat Banku and okro stew throughout the whole week” and therefore called on the ministry of education and the government to take immediate steps to address the issue to pave the way for the caterer’s return.
A first year female student called on the government to provide them with their school uniforms and other attires since it was long overdue, saying “ we also demand the construction of a place of convenience since we can no longer attend to nature’s call in bushes around the school”.