NDC flagbearer hopeful, John Mahama has explained how well he would run the NPP’s Free Senior High School (SHS) policy if he is elected President in the upcoming 2020 general election.
John Mahama, who was over the weekend in the Central Region to gain the mandate of delegates of the party as the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of the 2020 general polls, told party faithful in the Cape Coast North Constituency that he will institute a national stakeholders’ conference to develop strategies to make the programme more effective.
“We shall come together and decide on the proper implementation of Free SHS,” he said.
According to Mahama, the NDC has “done it before”.
The former President also pointed out that under the tenure of fellow flagbearer contender Ekwow Spio–Garbrah as Minister of Education in the Rawlings administration, the government organised a national conference on education and invited teachers, the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Organise Labour and other associations to deliberate on the best way forward for Ghana’s education.
It was at that conference, Mr Mahama said, that “a decision was taken to introduce the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) as a means of financing education in Ghana”.
He, therefore, vowed that if he gets the mandate to become President again, he would organise a similar conference that will culminate in the production of strategies that will ensure that the Free SHS programme is better-run under his presidency than what the Akufo-Addo government is currently doing.
However, President Akufo-Addo has stated that the determination by some elements within the National Democratic Congress to “review the Free Senior High School policy if voted into office” only means the eventual collapse of the policy.
According to President Akufo-Addo, the Ghanaian people should be alarmed by the proposal of the NDC and its presidential aspirant, John Dramani Mahama, for a review of the Free SHS policy – a policy which has ensured that 270,000 more Ghanaian children, in 2017 and 2018, have gained access to Senior High School.
“I am alarmed by this concept of the review. This is because anytime our political opponents try anything of this sort, it leads the policy in question into a coma. We all remember the NHIS one-term premium payment review pledge. Not only did the review not materialize, but they also succeeded in degrading the policy,” the President lamented.
He continued, “I honestly suspect reviewing the Free SHS policy means collapsing it. But, I doubt the Ghanaian people will allow this brilliant policy to be collapsed by anyone.”
Source: The Publisher
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...I laugh enter gutter inside. Give who second chance to do what? Tweaaaaaaaaaaaa, as if we don't know you. You were there for 8 good years and all you could do was cancel everything you came to meet and you say what??????? Mahama, please tell this to the dogs and give us a break
coming new,it will be disaster if mahama become so call ghana leader come 2020,this is what he will do, he is destroy the country, he will legalise asawo prostitution, corruption,***barred word*** , he will sell ghana, he will create tribalism, he is non entity,sake him with 10% .gh pp
Seriously, Mahama is a big joke! Isn't he ashamed of what he is saying? My goodness!
FREE SHS is Nana Addo's policy. It will be refined and reviewed. In due cause infrastructure will be put in place to accommodate all the students thereby doing away with the double track system. Please Mr. Former President come-up with an original idea of your own for the last time I heard, you mentioned you said this policy was neither plausible nor feasible. The man has done it.
Eeiii JDM, so you and your NDC don't have campaign message so you are taking advantage and using Nana Addo and NPP's concept as your campaign message. This is what we called "FOLLOW-M-BACK" Get a message of your own for Ghanaians to buy and vote for you. Note, Ghanaians will vote for the original of the concept. This is duplicate ooo massa.
...DOWN. That’s what he wanted to say! Dum8a$$ Mufuqqa!
He wants to come back and finish where he could not complete. Give the bauxite back to his brother, continue with the youth in bicycle ridding, send more nkonfem to Burkina, bring back the dumsor so he can sign more PPA and 16 cent/kwh and get kick back, collect more ford. build more community day schools in the bushes instead of expanding existing infrastructure in various schools, completely destroy the NHIS and help his freinds RLG, Seidu Agongo etc.
Hahahaaaaahahaaaahhaaahaha epayuo JM esi eben asem? ye ma enye abadze? hahahahaaaaaahhaaaaa ama me srew de ma ara.
Mahama, please look for something else to campaign on. As for the free SHS, the more you talk about it, the more you expose yourself to ridicule. You should also be thinking of bringing out something innovative, rather than claiming that you can do something better when another person is already doing it. That is a non-starter. What is the guarantee that if you review something, it will be better?
MASSA OPPORTUNITY KNOCK BUT ONCE. YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE AND BLEW IT. YOUR UTTERANCES MAKES ANY SERIOUS PERSON SEE YOU AS AN UNSERIOUS PERSON IN LIFE.