President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo only hoodwinked Ghanaians with the free Senior High School (SHS) promise ahead of the 2016 election just for votes, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, former Deputy Minister of Communication, has said.
According to him, the Akufo-Addo-led government has no idea about how to finance and sustain the programme, but for purposes of votes, he had to make that promise.
His comments come on the heels of plans by the government to introduce a double-track system in the SHSs in September.
Government has explained that the two-track system is meant to cater for the spike in enrolment into Senior High Schools (SHSs) due to the free SHS policy.
The full implementation of the new system is expected to cost GHS323million. The objective of the double-track system is to create room to accommodate all the students, reduce class size, increase contact hours and increase the number of holidays.
The system is similar to the academic calendar used in the universities. With this system, each track will be in school for specific days for each semester and go on vacation and come back for the second semester. While the first track is in school, the second track will be on vacation and vice-versa.
Speaking on Good Morning Ghana on Metro TV Thursday, 26 July, Mr Kwakye Ofosu said: “Free SHS, as it was promised by the NPP to be delivered, has collapsed. Is government not scrambling to look for ways to sustain a policy that is clearly unstainable? This double-intake system the president is talking about is nothing more than a glorified shift system. You can call a donkey an ass and paint its face with make-up, it will still remain an ass, it will never become a horse, so, they can call it whatever they like, it is a shift system.”
He added: “I am sure you are aware of the BBC interview with Mr Akufo-Addo on the free SHS. That poor performance by the president should have ended the free SHS debate because it was clear that the man whose vision it was supposed to be …simply did not have the answers to how much it will cost or how it was going to be implemented. It was the clearest indication that it was nothing more than populist rhetoric intended only to woo Ghanaians into voting for him.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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Ghanaians please check this out considering the contributions of some former heads of state of this dear country of ours. Kwame Nkrumah-Independence,,,Busia-Rural Development,,,Acheampong-Operation Feed Yourself,,,Rawlings-House Cleaning,,,Kufour-Health Insurance,,,Atta-Mills-Judgement Debts,,,Mahama-Create, Loot and Share,,,Akufo-Addo- Free SHS. Take it or leave it, these people will surely be remembered by some of the things they did to impact this country, positively or negatively. Please, be independent in your thinking as a true Ghanaian and consider the future of this country.
Folks do you realise that this pompous ***barred word*** is paid more than an MP just so he can spew nonsens3 all the time?The NDc thrives on illiteracy. If they had their way,the majority of Ghanaians would be illiterate so they can deceive them that all the roads inGhana are tarred ;well on paper anyway, when they know that it isn't true.People do not allow these nation wreckers to deceive you If ever you allow NDC back in power remember we are all finished.
Majorities of NDC hero benefited from free secondary education in Ghana and it is surprising for same cooks turn around and criticizes a programme that is feeding them now. They are evil in Ghanaian society
Tickle yourself and laugh NDC never dreamt NPP's Nana Addo would ever become president.
See the baby foooöl with sharp teeth....he doesn't know anything!
Has this guy still got the guts to make public commentary after been revealed that he takes ghc18,000.00 tac payers money as salary for no work. Ghana is really a cheap country.
Corrupt ***barred word***
GOVERNANACE is continuous but NPP with the idea of FREE SHS and the 123 COMMUNITY SHS built with our taxes have not all being used and last year a chief of one town told journalists because it is idle he want the buildings to be used as a NURSING TRAINING SCHOOL. That is the extent of wastage in the governance system.
Whatever it is, Ghana is educating it's future leaders and neither money or the lack of it, will hamper, derail, arrest, curtail, stop, slow down, the education of the future leaders of Ghana to take total complete charge of their destiny in this generation. It is as ironclad a will, purpose, conviction as any, in the development aspirations, objectives and goals of this country, in this generation.
We were deceived by NanaAkufADDO and he got our votes....Never again....Not even when he comes to promise he will give each man an additional woman to marry....tofiakwa!!!!!