Former President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated his intention to abolish the double track system if elected as President in the 2020 general elections.
The government adopted the temporary system, which began in some 400 Senior High Schools in the country to cater for increased enrollment under its flagship free Senior High School programme, due to a deficit in infrastructure.
Mr. Mahama, however, said the NPP administration hurriedly implemented the policy without engaging thoroughly enough with stakeholders.
“I will also work hard to abolish the double track system in the shortest possible time. We will do this by investing massively in the expansion of school infrastructures such as additional classroom blocks and dormitories and the completion of 200 Day schools popularly known as E-blocks that we started to enable our children to attend school at the same time and have adequate contact hours with their teachers,” said the former President.
The President made this comment while addressing party supporters at the Trade Fair Centre after submitting his nomination forms at the party’s headquarters.
2018 Christmas under NPP ‘will be the driest for Ghanaians’
The former President was also pessimistic this year’s (2018) Christmas will be exciting for Ghanaians, given what he described as the “excruciating economic difficulties” they are battling with under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration.
“Most Ghanaian families will go through the driest Christmas they have ever experienced in the history of Ghana,” the Flagbearer aspirant said.
The former President was however quick to add that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will “continue to put pressure on this government to push back on their insensitive economic policies” which it has put in place despite assurances of “better times under the NPP administration.”
Three other candidates submit forms
Three other aspirants, Joshua Alabi, Sylvester Mensah and Alban Bagbin also filed their nomination forms at the party’s headquarters today [Monday] with a fee of Ghc300,000 each.
Mr. Bagbin’s form was received by a team of national executives led by the party’s National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo and General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketsia.
After receiving the forms, Mr. Asiedu said: “On the surface, everything appears to be in order so I will proceed to sign to indicate that the party has officially received the forms.”
Mr. Bagbin assured that he will abide by the party’s rules during his campaign.
“As a presidential aspirant, I assure you that with your support and prayers and our message of grassroots empowerment and commitment to the ending of the cycle of neglect that has plagued those who have served party and country, victory will be ours in 2020,” Mr. Bagbin said.
Mr. Alabi, after submitting his forms called on the party’s leadership to find alternative ways of funding the party rather than charging aspirants exorbitant fees.
He also indicated that he will make Nana Addo a one-term President if elected as the party’s Flagbearer.
“I am afraid for our party. For those of us who supported the amount, there will be a time, if we do not take care, they will be charging branch Chairman GHC1,000. We have to work and find innovative methods of rebuilding our country. Innovative methods to find employment for our teeming unemployed youth.”
“We are getting to a place in our country where we need to give hope to our people, and I am here to tell you that as a Flagbearer of the NDC, I am going to give Nana Addo one term. If my name is announced as Flagbearer of the NDC, Nana Addo will start packing from the Flagstaff House,” said Mr. Alabi.
The deadline for the filing of nominations for the presidential aspirants was extended to December 18, 2018, after some pressure from the contestants, who petitioned and got the filing fee reduced to Ghc300,000 from an initial figure of Ghc400,000.
The vetting of the aspirants will be on the 21st and 22nd of December, 2018, with balloting to follow immediately after that.
Any appeals from the aspirants will be permitted between the 22nd and 24th of December, 2018.
Source: citinewsroom.com
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why won't Mahama abolish the double track system so that the children of poor families will return home and die in their poverty. he knows that the strength of NDC lies in the illiterate majority so they can use them as macho men and body guards whilst their children attend schools in Dubai and shamefully and shamelessly display opulence to we the task payers. God has seen all of you.
LEAVE MAHAMA ALONE. HE MUST TALK AND HE IS TALKING. AND FORMER PRESIDENT MAHAMA, DO YOU LISTEN TO GHANAIANS? THEY ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT HARDSHIP BUT THEY LOVE LEADERSHIP WITH SINCERITY, TRUST, ....... ARE YOU LISTENING TO GHANAIANS? FUEL PRICES ARE DOWN,SHS IS MOVING ON,FOOD IS IN ABUNDANCE, NABCO, CITIZENS ID CARDS TO GET CORRECT DATA FOR DEVELOPMENT, NHIS IS NOW BACK ON ITS FEET, NURSES ALLOWANCE SO THAT THEY DON'T DROP OUT, SANITY ON THE AIRWAVES BECAUSE NDC IS NOT IN POWER, FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION,...
John Mahama have you listened to yourself? How long are you going to take to abolish the double track system? What is the double track system about? What are the conditions under which it is being operated? There are adequate plans in place to rectify the situation the necessitated the introduction of the system. We all know it is an interim measure so what are you coming to do? Something which is being done already? The IMF Managing Director is in the country if you cannot listen to yourself, I was hoping you will have time to listen to what she has been saying. Your NDC Government approached the IMF for credit stability but then she is saying that but for the last 2 years Ghana as a country did not perform well in their dealings with the IMF meaning your Government did not perform according to their directions. Have you heard about her comments about the Free SHS that has been started by the current Government. If I were you, I would keep quiet and listen to these tit bits but your current approach is rather exposing more because you are being judged by actions you undertook and failed miserably by your "Messiah'the IMF. PLEASE KEEP QUIET BE IN THE BACKGROUND BECAUSE CURRENTLY YOU DO NOT MATTER AT ALL IN THE SCHEME OF MOVING GHANA AHEAD.
you are npt communicating well at all,you just get up and say I will abolish ,its not a priority,ok what will you do,you don't tell us any policy aahhhhhba,you just want power. look FUEL PRICES ARE DOWN,SHS IS MOVING ON,FOOD IS IN ABUNDANCE,havent u heard.Akuffo ADDO,Is doing WELL