The Campaign Team of NPP Flagbearer, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia, has urged Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, NDC Running Mate, to be objective and truthful about the Akufo-Addo government's Free SHS policy.
It would be recalled that in her speech last Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at UPSA, Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang fired salvoes at the NPP flagship programme, the Free SHS, describing it as being at war over food, space, calendar, materials, textbooks, hence creating an atmosphere that suppresses learning.
But in a sharp rebuttal, team DMB accused Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang of engaging in propaganda and a biased assessment of the Free SHS.
A statement signed by Nana Akomea, Deputy National Chairman of Bawumia 2024 campaign team said the policy has resulted in over 60% enrollment in secondary school for Ghanaian children between 2016 and 2023 which is a significant impact.
It asserted that the Free SHS beneficiaries have chalked the most remarkable results at the WASSCE.
Nana Akomea added that the WASSCE results from 2020 till date compared to 2015 and 2016 show a remarkable improvement in the performance of the students.
Additionally, this year saw the Free SHS beneficiaries sweep the top three International Excellence Awards instituted by WAEC.
The statement also established that Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang, if she would be honest, would admit the challenges with feeding and other educational materials have bedeviled secondary education in Ghana even during her time as Education Minster, therefore not peculiar to this current administration.
In Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang’s own handing over notes, she outlined arrears in feeding grant even for special schools, capitation grant for primary schools, among others including what the statement calls the "so-called progressive free policy of the NDC" being in huge arrears and "all these difficulties persisted in a time when there was no Free SHS".
The Bawumia campaign team asserts that Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang’s observation of Ghana's education system today as an “atmosphere that suppresses learning” is a "laughable observation looking at the remarkable results of free SHS graduates".
"It is an observation that can only come from her self-serving ambition", they concluded.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Naana Opoku Agyeman was a minister who cancelled teachers allowance and now talking about food in foods. A funny woman like her.
Nana Akomeah is perfectly right and spot on with the media statement. Naana Agyeman is dilutional about the FSHS policy, but they thought it was impossible. As an education minister, simple chalk for teaching and learning were unavailable in schools, Registers for public schools were unavailable not to talk about the cancellation of teachers allowance and paying only three months' salary for new teachers who had worked for one to three years. It's pathetic the way the NDC feels Ghanaians have short memory. Sad ehhhh??
Is the current Npp leadership and the current presidency that is taking the party into opposition, Npp die hard supporters are very angry due to the way the leadership handled it presidential primaries which is going to have negative consequences on the general elections . Npp grassroots believe in hard work and long service, when did Dr Bawumia became an Npp member? The president and his cronies deliberately forced Dr Bawumia to lead the party due to their wickednesss and corruption, they know without Bawumia, majority of them will go to jail , So they prefer going into opposition rather than going into jail. The grassroots are ready to help them go into opposition because they have decided not to vote for the party especially the Ashanti region. Npp oseeeeeeeee opposition here we come, wicked and weak party leaders.
a fine man had now reduced to a fineless man, Nana Akomea has lost all his integrity and reduced himself to political gymnastics. Akomea should be a Ghanaian for once and not NPP and be realistic about the state of the Ghana education system.