Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has expressed doubt about the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) capacity to independently look into the matter involving the alleged distribution of expired rice to second-cycle schools nationwide.
Mr. Ablakwa who also doubles as the Chair of the Assurance Committee of Parliament argued that the ministry was neck-deep in the affair by permitting “unscrupulous characters motivated by greed and corruption” to put the lives of Senior High School students at risk.
Mr. Ablakwa noted he had proof that the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) had engaged a Deputy Minister of Education during its investigation into the issue, dismissing the ministry’s innocence.
“I am extremely surprised that the Ministry of Education suggests that they didn’t know about this criminal and murderous conspiracy by Lamens Investments Africa Ltd and the National Food Buffer Stock Company when I have intercepted unimpeachable documents confirming that the Food and Drugs Authority spoke to a Deputy Minister of Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour during their investigations several months ago (see intercepted document attached).
“It is clear to me that the Ministry of Education is complicit in this matter and therefore cannot be trusted to conduct credible and impartial investigations,” he said.
The MP was of the view that any headway on the issue required an “independent, unbiased, credible and impartial investigation” which the ministry concerned did not have the integrity to oversee.
