{"id":104232,"date":"2025-11-26T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=104232"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:00:01","slug":"deputy-education-minister-rejects-claims-of-sanitary-pad-procurement-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=104232","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Education Minister rejects claims of sanitary pad procurement scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deputy Minister for Education, Dr Clement Apaak, has rejected claims from the Minority in Parliament that the government is inflating the cost of sanitary pads being distributed to female students.<\/p>\n

This comes after the Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, on Tuesday, questioned the allocation of GH\u00a2292 million for the procurement of 6.6 million sanitary pads.<\/p>\n

He argued that the figures do not match current market prices, suggesting possible inflation in the cost.<\/p>\n

Read also: Minority accuses gov\u2019t of overpricing free sanitary pad project<\/p>\n

Speaking to journalists in Parliament on Wednesday, November 26, Dr Apaak insisted that the claims were baseless and politically motivated. <\/p>\n

He argued that the Minority was determined to manufacture a \u201cscandal\u201d to damage the reputation of the Mahama administration.<\/p>\n

Dr Apaak said the Old Tafo MP had engaged in calculations that were misleading.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the Honourable Member of Parliament to disingenuously perform what the Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has described as chop-bar arithmetic, we can only conclude that it is yet another desperate attempt to try and enthuse the existence of a scandal to the John Dramani Mahama-led government so that the decomposing elephant can seek to equalise,\u201d Dr Apaak said.<\/p>\n