Member of Parliament for the people Juaboso Constituency in the Western Region, Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has described the restoration of the nursing trainee allowance by President Akufo-Addo as a ‘419’ and ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul' scheme.
He explained that the NPP government has reduced the number of students who should have gained admission into the various public nursing training colleges by 22 percent in order for the government to restore the allowance which was cancelled by Mahama government.
Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, the former Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources asserted that the Mahama led NDC government admitted by 7,000 students into the nursing training colleges after the introduction of the student loan and cancellation of the allowance scheme.
But he added that Akufo-Addo’s government brought back the quota system and offered about 5,000 students the opportunity to gain admission into the nursing training colleges so as to save money to fulfil their campaign promise of paying nursing trainee allowance.
“We need to expose and explain the tricks, the 419 and the robbing Peter to pay Paul in the NPP government. The NPP has reduced the admission of nursing trainees’ intake by 22 percent. In 2016, the NDC government admitted about 7,000 trainees and in 2017, this [NPP] government about 5,000 trainees into the nursing training colleges.”
“This is the trick, 419 and robbing Peter to pay Paul because in effect, if you analyse it well, you will realise that the reduction in the intake of the students is about 50 percent. We have private nursing training colleges and public nursing training colleges but the government does not bear the cost of the private ones”.
He stressed that “this government has reduced the intake in the public nursing training institutions and pushed more students into the private training colleges so that they can restore the nursing trainee allowance to the few students in the public nursing training colleges”.
“This is the kind of tricks going on in the NPP government; many students were denied admission into the public nursing training colleges in order to restore the trainee allowance”, he reiterated.
He believed the restoration of the nursing trainee allowance is just scoring political points and not meant for the nation’s good.
“This (Mahama) is a visionary leader. You will agree with me that under NDC, there were more investments in the health sector. The bone of contention with the nursing trainees has been that we decided to migrate these students to student loan scheme and then allow the colleges to take their full capacities and also make way for more people to be admitted and get more nurses into the system, but the NPP argued that they will restore the allowance but they never said they will reduce the intake of students”, he stated.
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Keep your mouth shut,what do you do you know about politics.
Do they call this dining hall prefect also honorable?
I am PROUD that Nana has put smiles of nurses faces. He could have diverted the sika towards any other agenda but decided to make nurses benefit directly other than few people smuggling a big chunk in the name of procurement for other projects. i trust very soon even animals on the streets will all smell Nana's goodness. Long live Ghana
When mahaha was robbing the nurses/teachers to buy chiefs,akua donkor,kwesi pratt and others houses and V8 where was this man
Oh Ama Ghana? How did all these characters managed to get to the august house? Is this man telling us that when they wickedly cancelled the allowances, all prospective nursing trainees got admission into the various schools? No policy under the could favour every citizen. You must rather shut your big mouth and continue to enjoy your loot and booty. How I wish you and your cohorts could behave as men and tell your brothers & sisters, nephews & nieces who are now enjoying the allowances to forgo them because it has denied other people the opportunity to have admission. Nana Addo is surely on course and Ghana is definitely going to work again
Where was this man when President Nana Akuffo Addo was using 419 to trick the people.Instead of warning Ghanaians that this was a trick, he sat down eating fufu and green soup (ABUNUABUNU) and could not think far.Oh, dining hall prefect.You have disappointed your people.
where will such r.ats get the opportunity to spew non.se.nse..A dinning hall prefect with no experience becoming a dep. minister. Somebody I wouldnt personally employ..
H.MINTA,WERE YOUR MAHAMA WERE ABLE TO EMPLOY STUDENTS THAT APPLY TO READ NURSING DURING TIME IN OFFICE?WERE YOU ALSO ABLE TO POST THEM ALL AFTER COMPLETION OF SCHOOL?IT IS THE N.P.P. GOVERNMENT WHICH CAME TO POST THEM .EVEN NOW THEY ARE A LOT MORE TO BE POSTED.YOU CUT YOUR COAT ACCORDING TO YOUR SIZES.WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF TRAINING MORE PEOPLE AND YOU CAN NOT GIVE THEM JOB AND ASK THEM TO PAY.N.P.P GOVERNMENT LEAD BY NANA ADDO HAVE A PLAN FUTURE FOR THE YOUTH.N.D.C.MUST WAKE UP AND LEARN FROM N.P.P.AND STOP THIS TYPE OF PROPAGANDA.
so this thing is also an MP? ONLY IN NDC
Listen to this thing that calls himself an MP. When he got a little oppoetunity to help his poor constituents, Akandoh and his father connived and stole/robbed the fertilizers that were meant for the farmers. He is rather rubbishing a policy that benefits many nurses. I'm sure the nurses in his constituency are listening. The NPP preferss to share among many. Left to Akandoh alone, he and his ***barred word***-father should get all the goodies. Fire burn you!