Selling of food at schools under scrutiny

SCHOOL inspectors in the National Capital District will be out in primary schools to check and take action against schools allowing food to be sold there, according to Education Secretary Dr Uke Kombra.
“I will be issuing instructions to all respective inspectors to go out to all our schools to confirm and find out the issues affecting the schools in implementing the food ban notice I issued to all schools to disallow the sale of food in schools this year,” Kombra said. “We will see where the problem is and appropriate administrative actions will be taken to address this ongoing problem.”
A circular was issued by the Office of the Education Secretary to schools, head teachers, principals, inspectors and police in NCD not to allow the sale of cooked food at school premises.
The notice was followed for a short while but recently vendors are back again.
“The vendors have capitalised on the system through their mobility and given teachers and head teachers a hard time to manage the buying and selling in school premises,” Kombra said.
“Teachers are there to teach and they are not policemen and women or security guards to watch on the gates and chase the vendors away.
“The sale of food around school premises has caused a lot of health and environmental effects.”