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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ABD think before you talk he was before do you know that
This man has no shame. Under his watch nothing happened. Millions of dollars of state funds was l00ted. If it hadn't been for the Northern scholarship this good for nothing would be on the prairie shepherding cattle.This programme has come to stay and the no brainers in the NDC shooting poisoned darts at it will be shamed.Never in my entire live have I seen such a congregation of all that is unholy and tainted as the NDCFree education is a worthwhile intervention.For the NDC the more illiterate the people are the easier it is to deceive them and st3al from them.They should continue on this trajectory and they will be opposition for a long time.
NO WONDER JOHN MAHAMA FAILED BIG TIME IN LAST ELECTION>>> AM SURE HE LOSS BIGGER NEXT TIME>>>>
What is enemies of progress when you senselessly introduce a program without broad consultation and it's collapsing? Why not faithfuls so myopic. Nana made so many nun sensical promises and now the chickens have come home to roost, all he has to do is to admit openly that he did not think through the program before it's introduction and ask for forgiveness. Probably he expect barwumia to to give his salary as donation.
The best donation npp can give Ghanaians is for all the 110 ministers, their deputies, board members, and all their thousand of appointees to say they forgo their salaries to support free shs. What sense does it make for Nana addo who claimed Ghana was sitting on money to come and tell Ghanaians to give donations to support free shs program. Is this not disgraceful. The same Ghanaians you said they are suffering, they couldn't pay school fees, light bills, rents etc, so you are coming to save them are the same people you are now saying they should contribute money they don't have for your haphazard consideration of free shs for cheap political advantage. They think we are ediots. Free shs is now donation driven. The program is even for just first years not all shs students, and it has started collapsing.
This incompetent John Ford Mahama Kanazoe guy must shut his mouth... somebody should tell me one thing his NDC govt achieved when they were in power apart from stealing state money and assets.... He even wanted to take the official vice presidential residence as part of his ex-gratia.. He tried to build a new one for $15M.. unbelievable the guy is very greedy and corrupt.... Somebody must advice him to simply ***barred word*** and leave better guys to develop our country.
GOD SHOULD HAVE MERCY ON GHANAIANS, SO MAHAMA ISN'T ASHAMED OF HIMSELF TO TALK ABOUT FREE SHS WHICH HE AND HIS NORTHERN BROTHERS BENEFITS SINCE NKRUMAH'S TIME TILL TODAY. I CAN'T THINK FAR, SOMEONE SHOULD EXPLAIN TO ME, HOW MANY GHANA DO WE HAVE AND HOW CAN PEOPLE FROM THE SAME COUNTRY NORTHERNERS ENJOYED FREE SECONDARY SCHOOL WHILST SOUTHERNERS PAY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL FEES? IF ISN'T SHEER WICKEDNESS ON THE PART OF NDC THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS. I PITY VOLTARIANS TOO MUCH BECAUSE THEY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO VOTES FOR NDC AND NOW THAT YOU ARE BENEFITING FROM FREE SHS I AM SURE 2020 ELECTION YOU WOULDN'T BE ***barred word*** BY NDC USEELESS PROPAGANDA. AND THOSE SOUTHERNERS NDC SUPPORTERS WILL VOTE FOR NPP TO SUSTAIN THE FREE SHS BECAUSE KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
NPP AND ALL GHANAIANS SHOULD BE AWARE AND BE REMINDED THAT THE ONLY CAMPAIGN TOOL THE NDC USES WHEN IN OPPOSITION IS "LIES." THEY DID EXACTLY THAT IN 2008, AND WILL SAME IN 2020. IN 2008, THE NDC NEVER CAMPAIGNED ON PAST ACHIEVEMENTS OF NDC/PNDC UNDER JJ RAWLINGS. BUT ALL THEIR CAMPAIGNERS HAD SOMEONE IN THE NPP GOVERNMENT WHO WAS CORRUPT AND WOULD GO TO JAIL IF THERE WAS CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT. RAWLINGS IN PARTICULAR LIKENED KUFOUR TO THE HARDENED CRIMINAL AND ***barred word***, ATAA AYI. JJ MADE IT LOUD AND CLEAR THAT KUFOUR WAS THE BRAIN BEHIND THE MURDER OF THE DAGBON CHIEF, YAANAA YAKUBU ADANI. HE EVEN SAID HE HAD IN HIS POSSESSION A RECORDED TAPE IMPLICATING THE THEN PRESIDENT. AND THE PROPAGANDA LIES WORKED VERY WELL TO THEIR BENEFIT: MANY GHANAIAN BOUGHT INTO THEIR LIES. NDC WON THE 2008 ELECTION, RULED FOR 8 YEARS, YET AS MUCH AS THEY TRIED, NOT ONE NPP APPOINTEE WAS FOUND GUIĹTY OF CORRUPTION. AND NOT ONE CEDI OF STOLEN MONEY WAS RECOVERED FROM THE ALLEGED CORRUPT NPP MINISTERS AND APPOINTEES. AND JJ RAWLINGS' ALLEGED RECORDED TAPE ON YAANAA'S MURDER COULD NOT BE GIVEN TO THE COURTS UNTIL THIS DAY. IT WAS ALL LIES AND PROPAGANDA FROM THE ONLY PARTY IN GHANA THAT EVER HAD A POSITION FOR "NATIONAL PROPAGANDA SECRETARY" - NDC IS PARTY OF LIARS! TODAY, THE NDC IN OPPOSITION HAS STARTED EARLY TO CONFUSE THE PEOPLE OF GHANA WITH LIES. SEEING THE PROGRESS THE AKUFO-ADDO GOVERNMENT HAS MADE IN ONLY 10 MONTHS, THE NDC IS AFRAID NPP'S ACHIEVEMENTS IN 4 YEARS WILL DWARF ALL THE NDC GREEN BOOK ACHIEVEMENTS OF 8 YEARS. AND SO THE LIES PROPAGANDA HAS STARTED EARLY AND VIGOROUSLY. BEWARE NPP, BE WARNED GHANA!
listen to this shamelless idiiot mahama talking rubberish and shiiit, balawo, gh pp
GO TO THE SCHOOLS AND SEE. MOST PARENTS AND SCHOOL AUTHORITIES DONT WANT TO TALK FOR FEAR OF INTIMIDATION AND MOCKERY. LEAVE JM ALONE AND CONCENTRATE ON THE MESS YOU HAVE CREATED. JM ALL THE WAY