Seasoned journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has issued a stern warning to former President John Mahama not to dare touch the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) free Senior High School (SHS) education policy.
According to him, Mr. Mahama will be embarking on a “suicide mission” should he decide to advance his decision to review the double-track policy, peradventure he is elected President of the Republic of Ghana in 2020.
Kweku Baako’s warning comes on the heels of recent statements by the former President promising to review the Akufo-Addo government's free SHS double-track policy if elected President in December 2020.
Ex-President Mahama told his party faithfuls at Cape Coast North constituency during a tour in the Central Region ahead of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential primaries that the government’s free SHS policy is ill-timed.
"Our NPP friends, they don't listen to advice, they think they know everything . . . We just finished vacation. Children have been at home for nearly three months. It is time to go to school you say you have to stay at home for nearly 41 days and let your friends go. After 41 days, they will come home and sit down; it doesn’t make sense,” Mahama said, adding that when elected President for a second time, he would hold a national stakeholders conference where he would panel educationists to revise the policy.
But commenting on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo”, Kweku Baako told host Kwami Sefa Kayi that there will be utter “disorder under the heavens” should the former President succeed in his agenda.
“If you abolish double track now, there will be disorder under the heavens. There will be disorder under the heavens; total chaos,” he stated categorically, further stressing that Mr. Mahama and the NDC are “potentially suicidal”.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Why worry about Mahama reviewing the free SHS? he will not even win power to have the opportunity to call for a review.
hi, coming news, tell nana addo to create jobs for all the youths in ghana, he should create construction, agric and internet biz all over ghana for the youth, send this to nana addo the president and every Ghanaian all over the world after reading from ghana people.
If I were the former President John Mahamah, I would not think of coming back to politics again. The present hardship facing the nation could be temporal. NDC government, never again.
I feel soooo sad as a Ghanaian to comment on the Mahama 'review of the free SHS doubl intake scheme should he ever come back to power.'it is a fact that since 1957 when Ghana gained independence, the then CPP govt legislated that the state MUST foot the education bills of all 'indegenes from the northern regions and to date, they have indeed enjoyed it producing presidents, VEEPs and ministers as well as prominent scholars etc. Just check the calibre of all the MPs in the present and past parliaments, all their children and wards are still benefiting! With the uninterrupted free education facilities to this group of Ghanaians and its benefits to them to date, it really hurts and indeed very vexatious to read and hear beneficiaries such as Mahama and his likes daring to stop this laudable initiative should they ever come back to power. I taught in a secondary schools in the upper west region from 1988-1990 and my observations? All that a final form 5 candidate has to do if he fails his 'O'levels exams is to restart admission again from another school from form 3 and he is back into the school stream again and his bill is still borne by the state. This can't be done by any student from the so-called south.Their parents will have to pay through their own toil to even resit the exams again. So the govt simple and equitable position is that all Ghanaians in respective of where you hail from, must be treated equally; so if students from the north are enjoying the free sch package, then, the wards from the south must also do same. For Mahama to even comment on this issue shows how discriminatory he can be. REVIEW? WHAT? I sent my child to a school in cape coast last month and within 30 minutes, all registrations were over; yes OVER! No hazzles, nothing! Ex-Pres Mahama should look for better messages for his come back but with the free shs, i beg..he dare not;it will be suicidal for him and his party! I rest my case! To back for the seat again, NEVER!
Is is rather "Before that would be achieved, NDC might have built 400 mansions in Dubai:
How was NDC going to deal with the huge qualified JHS graduates within a spate of the limited time we had? Who should sit home for the 200 classroom blocks to be completed? Before that would be achieved, NPP might have built 400 mansions in Dubai. There was a crisis, and NPP brought the double-track intervention. I even think they should maintain the double track because it would allow greater number of student to have access to the top schools. For example if PESEC was admitting 100 students under the single track, it can now admit at least 150 student with reduced congestion or smaller class size. DOUBLE TRACK IS BETTER THAN SINGLE TRACK IF WE WANT GREATER NUMBER OF THE STUDENTS TO ACCESS EDUCATION IN THE TOP ECHELON SCHOOLS.
Between a man who had free secondary education and one who did not but has made it possible for twice the number of Ghanaian children to have free access, I know who to believe. A word to the wise....
Kwaku Baako ,how much were you paid to say this about Mahama?mcheww.You think you aa ma.Because you read your papers and could put a words together and speak so you think that's all about education.It goes beyond that wai.CLose your jaws small if you don't have any wisdom to share with us.Is not by force for u to always speak
I completed my secondary school at kete-krachi in 1994. The school was the only secondary school around that area. students come from Dambai, Burae, Banda, Kpandai, Bimbila, Kajeji, Kwame danso and the island villages. Being the only in the area it was so over crowded such that we(first year students) had our classes at the laboratory.Part of the dining hall was also converted to temporal classroom to meet the high population.The school used an innovative way to accommodate all the students by rotating the classrooms. Any day a class comes to the lab for their practicals we first year students will leave the lab and go and replace that class. For example when form 2 A comes to the lab for the practicals, we the form ones (1s) will go and study in the form 2A Class. When form 2B comes to the lab we the form ones will go and study in their class. that was how the school was able to accommodate the huge students. The double track is equally an innovative way of accommodating the huge JHS stdents.
First of all my brother Abdul Malik, no suicide about Mahama reviewing free SHS double track policy. Pls lets be factual in our affiliations when it comes to most pressing issues like the free SHS and the double track policy. Who on this earth can tell us what will happen tomorrow? Big No!!!!! no one can do that apart from Allah (God). Our decisions in our day to day life is lottery. Who knows whether free SHS will help Ghanaian or not? Even the food and water we eat and drink has their negative side.Mahama, Nana,Kennedy Agyapong and all Ghanaians want Ghana to be better than this. No matter who lead us. Whether Mahama review or Nana double track system, may Allah give us a good lead in 2020.