The National Food Suppliers Association says its members won\u2019t back down on their decision to picket at the premises of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) if their 2 years outstanding arrears are not paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This comes after they met with the Minister of Education over the demands, of which NAFCO has indicated that plans are underway to get the Finance Ministry to release funds to pay them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, the spokesperson for the National Food Suppliers Association, Kwaku Amedume said they will not be moved by empty promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Amedume indicated that the respective agencies responsible for paying their arrears have been giving members of the Association consistent empty promises so much so that they can no longer put up with such promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat has always been the story we have been hearing for the past two years; we are organising some money, we are going to release some funding, we should bring our names, we should meet at 10 o\u2019clock. We have gone through all these processes and promises, and we are still where we are for the past two years. So I don\u2019t think it is enough to just conclude that we are satisfied. Until we have our money in our hands, we don\u2019t trust that this money will be paid to us\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMind you, day-in-day-out, the value of the money with Buffer Stock keeps reducing, and so we are more than interested in getting our money than any promise, we want action, not promises.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Association on AU Day, May 25, issued a 14-day ultimatum to the National Food Buffer Stock Company<\/a> to pay the eighteen months\u2019 arrears owed members else they will picket at the Buffer Stock\u2019s premises until they are paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: Citi Newsroom<\/strong><\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Food Suppliers Association says its members won\u2019t back down on their decision to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Damongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortageDamongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortage1-750x375-1.jpg",750,375,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Damongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortageDamongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortage1-750x375-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Damongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortageDamongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortage1-750x375-1-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Damongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortageDamongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortage1-750x375-1.jpg",640,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Damongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortageDamongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortage1-750x375-1.jpg",640,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Damongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortageDamongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortage1-750x375-1.jpg",750,375,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Damongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortageDamongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortage1-750x375-1.jpg",750,375,false],"shareaholic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Damongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortageDamongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortage1-750x375-1-640x320.jpg",640,320,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Damongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortageDamongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortage1-750x375-1.jpg",750,375,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Damongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortageDamongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortage1-750x375-1.jpg",750,375,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Damongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortageDamongo-SHS-takes-delivery-of-food-after-earlier-shortage1-750x375-1-590x375.jpg",590,375,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Babia Mubaric"]},"category_info":"General News<\/a>","tag_info":"General News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}