Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that the move by the Akufo-Addo led government to solicit for funds from the public to support the free SHS policy “will not be successful”.
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, in delivering the 2018 budget and financial policy in Parliament, announced the setting up of a Voluntary Education Fund to receive donations from the public to support education in Ghana.
However the former President while addressing NDC supporters at the party’s Unity Walk held in Tarkwa on Saturday, November 25 said “this voluntary contribution ‘lalasulala’ will not be successful. We need a broader discussion on how to fund the Free SHS. Just the first year of implementation and we are seeing the challenges. By the time it gets to the second and third years then these problems are going to be multiplied by three”.
Former President Mahama wondered why the ruling government was in a "hurry to introduce Free SHS while the constitution states that it should be introduced progressively? Progressively means implementation gradually and not all at once or by force. However, somebody just came and he says within three years he will implement Free SHS and the outcome is what we are seeing now”
He therefore, advised President Akufo Addo to immediately call together stakeholders to brainstorm on the policy and find the way forward.
According to him, "it is not too late to call a national stakeholders conference immediately and solicit for people’s opinion so that we can make Free SHS sustainable because it was not originated by one person but enshrined in the 1992 constitution”
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Fffoolish man...what did u do with all the money during your tenure...dont come and talk tra$h here...u are a cursed president who will never get an opportunity to rule again....gallaway !!!
I don't see anything wrong with what he said to get this kind of insults. he only gave his opinion to sustain the thing what is the big deal?
All wishers of the free SHS and all those castigating the former President please prepare your donations and send it to the Finance Minister.
I am completely sad to read this statement which is coming from nobody than the former president. Is free education for only the NPP members? Why are you using something that can benefit all youth in Ghana which NDC members are also beneficiaries in the free education program. Very sad Mahama please don't allow yourself to become insulted to Ghanaians because of power. You are becoming a disgrace to the position as former president. Please think about Ghana and not NDC Please. And please keep quiet and enjoy the little respect some of us have for you.
All the Moneys your government wasted on SMARTYS, ISOFOTON, RLG, AMERI, GUEST HOUSE-BOLE,etc. if left in the national coffers could have s0lv3d some of the challenges the FREE SHS is FACING! Even almighty America's Obamacare is facing Challenges, but citizens of america are still pushing it forward. You and your set of c0rrupt followers and naysayers...Okudjato Ablakwa, Ato Forson, Asiedu Nketia etc. should give us a BREAK!! You (John D3ad G0at Mahama) was living life lavishly..a lifestyle a typical northerner wouldn't get to live, all at the expense of the tax-payers money..and you are here talkin N0NS3NS3!! Special Prosecutor fall on you and your group of c0rrupt individuals. FREE SHS HAS COME TO STAY..THE BATTLE IS STILL THE LORDS!!
All the Moneys your government wasted on SMARTYS, ISOFOTON, RLG, AMERI, GUEST HOUSE-BOLE,etc. if left in the national coffers could have solved some of the challenges the FREE SHS is FACING! Even almighty America's Obamacare is facing Challenges, but citizens of america are still pushing it forward. You and your set of c0rrupt followers and naysayers...Okudjato Ablakwa, Ato Forson, Asiedu Nketia etc. should give us a BREAK!! You (John ***barred word*** Mahama) was living life lavishly..a lifestyle a typical northerner wouldn't get to live, all at the expense of the tax-payers money..and you are here talkin N0NS3NS3!! Special Prosecutor fall on you and your group of c0rrupt individuals. FREE SHS HAS COME TO STAY..THE BATTLE IS STILL THE LORDS!!
John Mahama is trying to make himself more irrelevant, irreverent .... at least behave like a former Head of State! And be smarter in thinking besides read. Whats wrong when voluntary contributions are made towards a fund for public good.? Its unfortunate you became a president
Massa do you know for how many years students have been studying under atrocious conditions in our universities. Go to hospitals and see how patients have been sleeping on floors and lack of roper health delivery. We don't complain. NDC introduced JSS and SHS and what happened . Politicians took their children overseas. If free SHS is stopped the whole country must stop Free Education. Please give us solutions how we can fund children whose parents cannot afford in Ghana not only in the North. If the 200 schools had been built by you some of these challenges would have not happened.
IS IT REALLY TRUE THAT THIS MENTALITY HAS EVER RULED THIS COUNTRY OF CIVIL PEOPLE BEFORE. LET US TELL HIM THAT WHEN HIS CHILDREN WERE EDUCATED ABROAD WITH THE TAX PAYERS SWEAT, SCHOOL FEEDING A SOCIAL INTERVENTION HE INHERITED WAS ALMOST COLLAPSED, HEALTH INSURANCE, DISTRICT ASSEMBLY COMMON FUND, GET-FUND ETC.ETC. WERE ON THEIR KNEES. AND NOW WHAT IS THIS MAN SAYING. HE PROBABLY BELONGS TO THE DECADE OLD GHANAIAN POLITICS. THEIR POLITICS OF PLAIN LIES AND PROPAGANDA HAVE BEEN OVER FLOGGED. A PALADIN ***barred word*** WITH HONESTY AND FAIR PLAY MAY BE, WILL EARN THEM SOME RESPECT OF THE ELECTORATE.