The National Food Suppliers Association have threatened to take legal action over their GH¢200 million unpaid arrears.
According to them, if the government fails to pay the two years arrears owed its members by Friday, June 16, they will have no option but to drag the government before the court.
A spokesperson for the association, Kwaku Amedume, said all effort by the group to get their money paid by the government has proved unsuccessful.
He explained that the money the Buffer Stock Company owed its members had lost value over the period, and the only way to get the government to do the needful was to press legal charges.
“We will be proceeding to court because the money we are taking from the government is without interest, and the money has been with the government for two years. So if we must go to court, we will be asking for interest on our money because we are spending so much to get this money. We will be asking for damages and compensations and anything that our lawyers may deem proper,” he said on Citi News.
Meanwhile, from Tuesday, June 13, 2023, the association will begin a series of picketing at the National Food Buffer Stock Company premises as part of measures to have the arrears paid.