Mr Joseph Onyinah, Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, has charged heads of public basic schools in the municipality to ensure transparency in the use of the capitation grant.
Mr Onyinah, who made the call at an emergency meeting with school heads at Obuasi said reports reaching his office indicated that some of them had "shrouded the use of the grant in secrecy".
He asked the heads to let their teachers know about the grant.
"As part of the transparency in the use of the grant, the initiative for spending should come from the teachers", Mr Onyinah said, adding that transparency in its use was crucial to its effective and successful implementation.
Mr Onyinah said to avoid any doubt, all heads should hold staff meetings on the grant as soon as schools re-opened where the purpose of the grant and the amount the school had received should be discussed and the minutes recorded for inspection and monitoring.
The Municipal Director warned that any headteacher who failed to comply with the directive would be sanctioned.
"During the second week of next term, my office will come round to monitor and any head that defaults in the organization of the staff meeting will be used as a scape-goat", Mr Onyinah stressed.
Mr Kofi Nti, the Assistant Director of Education in-charge of Finance and Administration at the Municipal Education Office, said a team would visit the schools to verify whether the items the schools planned to purchase with the grant were bought.
Mr S.A.B. Awuah, Assistant Director of Education in-charge of Human Resource Management and Development, advised the heads to use the greater part of the capitation grant to enhance teaching and learning by organizing in-service training for their teachers.