The Vice President Mr. John Mahama has directed the Ministry of Education to procure fabrics intended for the free school uniforms from local textile manufacturers. He has assured that government will be willing to have taxes reduced, so the cost of production will be competitive to enable the local industries to produce. This was followed by the publication of the original report titled "Chinese firms get school uniform contract".

Mr. Mahama gave the directive that the Ministry of Education should abrogate whatever foreign contract for the supply of the school uniform and revert to local industry.

The Minister of Education, Mr. Alex Tettey-Enyo, who recently inaugurated boards of five agencies under the ministry said that the free school uniforms for one million basic school pupils announced in the 2009 budget would be ready for distribution when the 2009-10 academic year begins.