Local textile manufacturers Printex are frustrated over government’s failure to pick up bales of materials meant for the free uniform policy introduced by government. Government had initially wanted to import the material from China but later re-awarded the contract to Printex to boost local textile industry in the country. The Administrative Manager of Printext told Joy News there is no extra incentive to produce the materials because their warehouses have already been choked. “We were supposed to print a certain quantity every month for them to be lifted. We have met ours but they are not lifting. We informed them over a month ago still we have not heard anything,” Moses Ziza, lamented. He was even more disappointed in government given the difficulty they endured before producing the materials. “The production hiccups that we went through; scarcity of RFO, rampant power outages, kerosene and all that, but we felt that the project is a lofty one and we had to meet the target so we did everything we could. I don’t know what the problem actually really is,” he complained. He said their capital has been locked up in the project making it difficult for them to continue production. But the Public Relations Manager of the Ministry of Education said government is still committed to the project. He denied assertions that the ministry had not picked up the materials for months. Paul Krampah said initially the quantity of materials produced was inadequate, but were later informed that Printext had increased the quantity of production. He gave the assurance that government will soon pick up the remaining materials for the effective implementation of the policy Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana