Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini, has revealed that first year students in some of the nation’s second cycle institutions benefitting from government’s flagship Free SHS are being treated to ‘harsh’ conditions where they have to eat ‘crappy’ food.
He revealed this in an interview with Nana Aba Anamoah on the Tuesday edition of ‘State of Affairs’ on GH OneTV.
According to him, a visit to some government secondary schools and interactions with parents of some beneficiaries of the policy bring to bear the fact that the program is barely half as successful as they projected. First year students in some of the schools have to eat separate food from the rest of the student population; food which is of poor quality by all standards, leaving parents with the extra burden of having to provide food constantly for their wards.
“There’s an apartheid system existing in our schools today, if you go there, you’ll find out that first years, they are fed separately from the second and third years and their food is crap. Go to many schools, Achimota is in Accra here, you’ll find out, it is because of the monies paid and the inability of the monies to meet the feeding needs of the schools… there is a very terrible thing happening in the schools… ask most of the parents who have their wards in first year, they constantly send foods to their wards.”, he said.
Alhaji Fuseini argues that government has no right to claim credit for having fulfilled their promise to Ghanaians as far as the implementation of the Free SHS policy is concerned. His point being that the NPP promised to enrol all eligible persons on the policy but subsequently focused solely on first year students, relegating the second and third year students to the background.
“If you want for populace street popularity, to just go and do something to create the impression that you have brought Free SHS… don’t beat your chest and say you have done it all because I can say now that the vast majority, overwhelming majority of students are not benefiting from the Free SHS… so I can do the extension that parents are not happy because majority of parents who have their wards in Senior High Schools are not benefitting, it’s only the first year students, is that what NPP promised Ghanaians?...go and look again, they said ‘all eligible students, all!’”
“Even with the first years, they paid only 20% of the first term and that is what the Headmasters and others are complaining about”.
The Free SHS, one of government’s flagship policies was launched in September this year after which the first batch of entrants into government Senior High Schools were enrolled on the policy. While many have praised government for fulfilling their promise to Ghanaians by reducing the burden of having to cater for fees, the policy has come under severe criticism by others particularly some minority members in parliament who argue that the implementation of the program is problematic.
Alhaji Fuseini was speaking on issues regarding the NPP’s performance 11 months into office.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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Free education was good when the Nkrumah government rolled it up North to benefit you and your people. Now that it is being extended all over the country you are complaining. Your party wants to take advantage of the illiteracy rate to con people to vote for them. No way!!! Your agenda will rail.
A.B.A Fuseini why wouldn't the free SHS eat on scrapes when ndc women organizers are matrons in schools and stealing the food consignment for sale? ndc are just evil, they go to the river source to muddy it and come to the banks to ask who did this, akronfuo? You see their faces and you see the faces of armed robbers. These people will not stop to amaze some of us, they are pure and true authentic children of Satan and never again will they come to power.Ndc men are as thi*ves as their women and they have no shame, everywhere they carry their thi*very even in abroad their women steal from African markets everything including corned beef and one of their women organizers who is a matron with one of the SHS in the North stole the food consignment for the school and the people themselves arrested her and she is facing the laws in a court. Akronfuo nkoaa so they have no shame and they think everyone is like them so making unnecessary noises disturbing our ears with their nons*nse.
These NDC people are dev!l!sh... John Mahama and his NDC gave people scholarships to study abroad and refuse to sent them their monthly payments for months. I have friends who were put through that hardships. This difficult northner called A.B.A. Fuseini who benefited from free education in northern Ghana must shut his smelling mouth and give us a break. Go and find some kola and chew and leave us alone. You guys have messed up our country from PNDC time and enriched yourselves.....
Anti FREE SHS elements in Ghana is NDC. A vote for NDC is a vote AGAINST FREE SHS and collapse of NHIS!
Why are some of these northerners in the ndc behaving like sub human beings .Why do they talk loosely like that .please northerners are respectful group of people hard working and matured stop denting the image and respect they have worked for
Iam supprise of this claim , so you mean Nana Addo the president or the minister is the one that prepared the food. Please think twice , if our own people decide to steal the money given them for food and went and prepare that crappy food your are talking about how is it the fault of the policy implementation . Why are you people trying very hard to under estimate the free SHS policy . Please for once fear God small and it will do your heart good
A.B.A FUSEINI you make too much noise and am sorry to say this "U DON'T MAKE S.E.N.S.E".My advise to you is that with the s.tolen monies with you and your party NDC get them better food.You can support the schools with your stolen money. Whether you like it or yes the free shs has come to STAY. Even Chalk for 8yrs you could not provide, go and tell your mum with your foo.lish commentary.
HELLO MR. BITTERNESS, WHAT ARE THE SECOND AND THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS EATING? MAYBE YOU SHOULD RECOMMEND THAT THE PTA CONTRIBUTES TOWARDS THIS. BY THE WAY WHAT DO STUDENTS IN YOUR CONSTITUENCY EAT? NOBODY TAKES YOU SERIOUS FUSEINI BECAUSE OF YOUR HATRED FOR EVERY THING GOOD. I HAVE NEVER HEARD YOU PRAISE ANYTHING GOOD EVEN FROM YOUR DAYS AS A JOURNALIST. CERTAINLY YOU WILL NOT CHANGE BUT AN ATTEMPT TO CREDIT WHERE DUE WILL AMELIORATE YOUR HATE TENDENCY. HELP YOURSELF
Did you eat anything different before going to parliament? Even if you did, and when you got the chance what did you do? Ogwan, mei!