Mr Amaliba has said the company is no longer working and not fit for purpose.

The legal practitioner made the call as he expressed sympathy with members of the National Food Suppliers Association who are picketing on the Buffer Stock Company’s premises to demand payment of GH¢278 million in arrears owed them.

According to him, it will be prudent for government to revert to the old system where school heads were provided money to purchase food items for their various institutions.

“Buffer stock should be collapsed because it is not working. Suppliers say they have supplied food yet the schools say there is no food. So why don’t we revert to the old system where headteachers and matrons were in charge of finances and making their own purchases?

“I wonder how the president feels when he sits to watch TV and sees people at the mercy of the whether over arrears. It is bad when a government is not performing but it is worse when they deliberately want to inflict pain on citizens,” he said on Accra-based TV3.

Mr Amaliba stated he is disappointed in the way the issue has been handled and called on the government to, as a matter of urgency, pay the suppliers.

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They have fulfilled their threat to bring utensils to cook at the premises where they claim to feel safe than their homes.

The National President, speaking on Adom FM’s Burning Issues, said although they sleep under no roof and are bitten by mosquitoes, no one chases them, unlike their homes where creditors are always on their necks.

On Thursday, some members decided to bring foodstuff while others brought mortar and other kitchen items to facilitate the cooking of their boiled yam and tomato stew.

In a video shared on Twitter by Accra-based Metro TV, the protesters who appeared unbothered went about their cooking comfortably and engaged in hearty conversations.

A middle-aged woman was captured peeling yam while others had also commenced processes to prepare the stew.

Members of the Food Suppliers Association picketing at the Buffer Stock Company have refused to leave and started to cook at the premises #MetroNews pic.twitter.com/fiwGMIiI54

— Metro TV Ghana (@metrotvgh) July 6, 2023

It is not clear how many more days the suppliers will stay at the premises as they have spent already three nights at the premises.

Meanwhile, the National Buffer Stock Company has said it acknowledges the indebtedness, adding an emergency board meeting will be held with relevant stakeholders over the development.

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