Former Deputy Education Minister and Member of Parlaiment (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, says he has it on authority that, some students in one of second cycle institutions in Cape Coast are pregnant as a result of the Free Senior High School policy.
Since the rolling out of the policy more than three months ago, the minority side in parliament, especially Mr. Ablakwa, has consistently raised doubts about the effectiveness of the policy, insisting, at different times, that the policy may collapse because of government’s inability to sustain it.
There have been widespread reports of challenges with students either studying under trees or eating in poorly ventilated dining rooms. Recently in an interview, he was emphatic the policy will collapse in five years because government does not have the capacity to see the program to a successful end.
Speaking on Asempa FM Monday, Mr. Ablakwa, who declined to name the specific school and the four girls, said the policy has rendered most students homeless and as a result resorted to renting apartments outside of the school.
He said the situation is what has resulted in the pregnancy of the four students, whose identity he will not disclose.
The free SHS policy which was major campaign tool of the current government in 2012 an 2016 respectively, was rolled out in September this year with over 400, 000 beneficiaries.
It has however been characterized by challenges ranging from the unavailability of accommodation, furniture, poor feeding to lack of basic amenities at the implementing institutions.
Some members of the current government including Dr Kwame Amoako Tuffuor, have called on government to take pragmatic steps in addressing challenges the programme is saddled with citing his experience during a visit to one of the schools.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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epayuo ndc fuo wo se yen ye won den? eben asem yi? opposition reku won papa. wo be ye dem ara ashew ooo!!! eei!!! 1 year pe na worefena dem ya? sorry ooo!!! Do you know the number of pregnancies you people brought to bear on young ladies who stayed at home and roam about without being in school. GOD forgive you atse. Awuradze onfa wo bon nkye wo atse. akwohwifo, manbofo.
Sickening period. This Government has rendered NDC ***barred word***
Who noticed that he said it will collapse in 5 years time? Npp has 4 years to rule so if they are not able to win in 2020, ablakwa believes they will take the steer in the 5th year and hopefully collapse it. Ablakwa talk sense small for u are growing
Ablakwa's govt was to build 200 day senior high schools in various parts of the country. Students who were to be admitted to these schools outside there districts of residence would definitely have rented hostels anyway. What would Ablakwa have done to protect these students from getting pregnant?? Ablakwa and his NDC's discomfort about this vote-catching free SHS is rooted in the likelihood of they losing election 2020...and they WILL lose badly.
Am very sad oday...So if your Leader JM says he is not against Free SHS and you hear comments like this then one is tempted to believe that they are lying to us... The woyome money could have solve about 90 percent of the SHS problems.. Lets identity the problems rather and push Government to resolve it than always blaming free SHS on everything.. Thank God today mothers can save up till 700 to 800 Ghc
Dear (Dis)Honorable, How many of the four did you 'impregnate' because of Free JSS? It is the doer who know what is being done ... Abi?
so were students not getting pregnant before free education? Let's make sensible arguments.
So Free SHS must collapse by all means? NDC is not able to think outside the box,when somebody else does,they will start chanting...they cant do it...they cant do it. Ablakwa and the minority in parliament are becoming a nuisance now.
When ydyots and stzuupid people like afonodzato abladzokwa speaks then all helll is lose. His mother is one of the pregnant shs girls and JDM is responsible for that
I will be ashamed if you are my representative in parliament