Reports rife indicate that school authorities at Nungua Secondary School in Accra were asking parents to pay over GHC100 to receive school uniforms for their wards.
This is against the free SHS policy which comes with free library fees, no science centre fees, no computer lab fees, no examination fees, no utility fees, free textbooks, free boarding and free meals, and day students will get a meal at school for free.
Speaking to this development in an interview on Citi Eyewitness news, Minister of State at the presidency, Professor Kwasi Yankah says investigations will be conducted to ascertain the truth of this report.
“We will be interested in getting the details of it, and we’ll send our agents there to find out exactly what is happening, and possibly bring to order any of the principals that are doing this. We need to learn more about the details of this,” he said.
Government, according to him, is determined to make the free SHS policy work as a result school authorities who flout the guidelines will be dealt with.
“I don’t think the authorities in the various secondary schools are going strictly according to the guidelines that were given by government…as far as we are concerned the entirety within the list; those things have been taken care of. However, if it still repeats, under no circumstance should the parents oblige any order to pay anything…they have no business charging anything…" he added.
Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com; pix Citi FM
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its about time we all put our hands on deck to help our mother country. let's focus on how best we can promote this great initiative by the government and help them fix the loopholes thereof and in that manner, Ghana can become the eye of the continent.
you are sik, go to Okwapeman and see how miserable situation the students are living in.
Very soon all will see that, this was a policy that was not thought through. It is more of a political expediency rather than an answer to a real need. How can a sensible parent leave his/her ward of 14 or 15 years to live all by him/herself? I mean how?
I DON'T THNK THERE ARE CONCRETE RULES AS TO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR THIS PROGRAM. NO WONDER ALL THE HEADS OF THE SCHOOLS ARE CONFUSED...SMH
@Naana The government has sent 20% of every school's funding for the first years.If any head says anything to the contrary that head is lying.For students sleeping in classrooms all of you parents want your children in a particular school if you are denied you go on air to say "my child had aggregate 6 but has been refused the school of her choice.In the face of all these problems why are some heads seamlessly implementing the policy and others deliberately fumbling to create rent seeking conditions to defeat the purpose of the policy.Any head found to be putting impediments in the way of the policy must be sacked.The head of Nungua has no business charging.She must be sacked.
have you sent the schools food to feed the children and have you send them monies for other things yet,,, some of the children are hungry and sleeping in classrooms and dining halls. please i am a parent and i want my child to be safe.