Former Head of Intelligence Unit University of Ghana, Legon-Student Representative Council (SRC) Obeng Daniel, aka Barrister, has taken a swipe at President John Dramani Mahama for beating retreat on the trainee nurses and teachers allowances in Ghana.
He could not fathom why the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government has rescinded its ‘unpopular’ decision to scrap the nursing trainee allowances as the December 7, 2016 polls draws closer.
In 2013, the NDC administration declared the abolishment of the trainee nurses allowance, explaining that it was to ensure the removal of some restrictions on admission to the various training institutions.
Government further explained that scrapping the allowances would grant more students the opportunity to gain admissions into the institutions.
But the abolishing of the said allowances and the silver-tongued explanations offered by the Mahama government was viciously rejected with mass protests and statements from the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), the Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees Association (GNMTA), including the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
However, a press release signed and issued by Mr. Obeng Daniel in Accra yesterday and copied toToday stated that the nursing/teacher trainees should not be “fooled” with allowance restoration and be dumped after elections.
He called on nursing/teacher trainees to be vigilante just as Article 25(1)d of the 1992 Constitution talks about equality, accessibility, affordability, and progressive introduction of free education at the tertiary level.
According to him, nursing/teacher trainees and students have suffered a lot in the hands of this government for the past eight years.
“As I speak I have several friends who have deferred their courses at the nursing/teacher trainee sector just because their parents cannot afford to pay their school fees. Others too have stopped schooling because the means to attain tertiary education at nursing/teacher trainee is not there,” he noted.
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