I am a teacher in the Western Region one of those who firmly believed in the agenda of a Better Ghana propagated by His Excellency John Dramani Mahama.
I was deeply impressed by all the promises made to teachers during the era of Honorable Lee Ocran as Minister of Education. One of those promise was that every teacher would be given a laptop computer and assisted to improve his or her computer skills.
The rational was sport on. If laptops were being supplied to students, then the teachers who teach them need to have computer skills as well. Besides laptops have become so expensive that many teachers cannot afford them from their monthly pay packet.
I was particularly thrilled when His Excellency John Mahama repeated the promised on his campaign trail.
I refused to listen to the cacophony of NPP propaganda and keenly supported President Mahama to win the 2012 elections.
Unlike other teachers, I am not as yet disappointed in the President. I believe that three months is perhaps too soon to give up on a President of a country in the midst of crisis.
However, many teachers want to know what happened to the promises to provide 50,000 laptops to us. I have checked with many of my colleagues in the region and none of them has been supplied with a laptop.
My questions are what happened to the promises? Who will give us the answers we need? Will Honourable Lee Ocran speak to the issue?
It is my hope that The Insight which is fast becoming the voice of the voiceless will publish this letter for a broader discussion of the issue.
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