Former President John Dramani Mahama says the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will properly implement the free Senior High School programme if Ghanaians give the party the mandate in 2020 to run the country.
Rubbishing allegations by the New Patriotic Party that the NDC will collapse the programme Mr. Mahama observed the programme has since its implementation in September 2017 faced challenges with lack of infrastructure leading to congestion in some schools
He said this while addressing NDC delegates at Obuasi in the Obuasi East constituency on Monday as part of his four-day flagbearership campaign tour of the Ashanti Region.
Mr. Mahama said the roll out of Free SHS programme is a constitutional obligation hence the NDC will be fully committed to its implementation.
He observed that even though government is claiming that education to the Senior High School is now free, the introduction of the Double Track System is making parents pay more.
The former president explained that the double track system introduced by the government this academic year to shore up admissions into school has brought with it extra classes, which parents will have to pay for.
He said government is struggling to implement the free SHS programme because it has not invested in school infrastructure such as classroom blocks and dormitories.
Mr. Mahama thus gave the assurance that the NDC government would make the needed investment to address the challenges when elected in the 2020 general elections.
He questioned the Akufo-Addo government’s decision to abandon the E-Block Community Day Senior High Schools, which were constructed as part of the progressively free SHS programme introduced by the NDC government.
The former President said the next NDC government will continue its infrastructural investment in Senior High Schools to help accommodate more students in Senior High Schools.
“When the NDC government returns, we will complete all 200 Senior High School structures we began building while in power.”
Mr Mahama urged delegates of the NDC to unite and work hard for victory in 2020.
Source: 3news.com
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What will you fixed. From 1998 npp started campaigning on free shs. If you were wise you would have implemented it when you were in government for the past 8 years. You even said it was impossible. Somebody has implemented it and you who said they cannot do it want to come and destroy it. Cursed party no wonder your founder said Ghana is fortunate to have Akuffo Addo as it president. Manama bring your own polices and stop I will fix it because you are hollow and shallow to fix anything. He who conceives the idea will fixed it challenges not you
Mahama campaigning messages:teachers and nurses say they are sorry, Ghanaians say they miss JM, my second coming will be good, let me complete my term, let me finish what I started. So Mahama, what will be your policies for Ghana? He go do this saaa then he go lose again. No vision
NPP campaign on what policies they will implement when given power but the NDC always campaign on what they will do about NPP's policies. The difference is clear. Mahama tell us your policies please
***barred word***, is free SHS your vision for you to fix it? are you straight or you are drunk! how can you fix somebody's ideas when it doesn't come from your damn empty head? is this guy alright? Ghanaians did well by voting massively to send him away, he is disgusting! so, it means even in opposition he couldn't get the time to sleep to think of what he will do himself should in case Ghanaians mistakenly give him another chance? he is relying on the President's vision to fix it hahahahaha what a leader that ndc has? aaaaaaah! I thank God I'm not ndc and will never be ndc because I can't take this man as my leader if I were a member! very disgraceful and he has no shame! I remember he was crying for some pages taken away from his speech in the presence of African leaders and I was like Whaaaat? is this Ghana's president? then came the Scotland paliament where he was reduced to the gallery and this man said what? he want to come back where hahahaha! does he take every Ghanaian as a joke like his party? Ghanaians will lose their dignity and the country will be reduced to a joke if this man is allowed again, I know Ghanaians are above the game he wants to play on them.Ghanaians don't have the short memory he is playing with. John mahama should have a little respect for Ghanaians, your insults won't bring you back. It is an insult to tell Ghanaians the majority who voted you out they had no right to vote you out so you are coming back according to him he did infrastructure what is infrastructure and who didn't do infrastructure? Gen. Kutu Acheampong did much infrastructure than ndc 27 years what are you talking about? didn't you tell President Kuffuor it was mediocrity? so what do you call your action? now Eastern Corridor road, Ghanaians who live along that stretch are crying their road is deplorable so where is the Eastern corridor roads and where is the money? 2020 campaign 3b3 y3 d3 papa!
Don't you see that there is so much thinking in what the Deputy Minister is saying? Yet those who are believed to know better have lost their reasoning. You don't start a project and expect to land promptly at the quality envisaged. It is a process. What is important is you get started and then you build on by correcting the difficulties you encounter; with the aim of achieving the good results and quality, you desire. Unlike NDC-Administration which embarks on cosmetic projects during election times, ostensibly to bring the Dubai type of bridges to Ghana, but the main purpose is to blackmail to win votes. Prioritizing projects is by the NDC a strange word when it is not going to fetch votes. That is the popular mantra of the NDC, thus do everything, be it lies, insults, killings, and make vicious propaganda to get the political power in the manner of kleptocracy until elections become superfluous, then at the end of the day you have the National assets at your disposal, you can do and undo,and the democracy becomes meaningless. The FHS is more or less a long-term project and will take some time before it really bears the fruits we desire. So you can forget it if you can't entrust it with a Government which shares the same vision and determination beyond winning elections.
COMFUSED JM. WHO CAN IMPROVE IT BETTER THAN THE ONE WHO IMPLEMENTED IT. THEY STARTED HEALTH INSURANCE AND YOU NEARLY COLLAPSED IT. YOU CAN NEVER BE TRUSTED.
OH JM AS AT NOW NO CAMPAIGN MESSAGE. 2020 DIER FORGERIT
Over the bar. The free SHS policy was a campaign issue in 2008, 2012, 2016. If NDC and Mahama was interested in it, for the past 8 years they would have implemented it and fixed the challenges if any. A party that did not and could not implement the free SHS cannot fix any challenges if any, whatsoever identified, with the free SHS. Nope, Mahama and NDC do not have the intelligence for such a program/policy intervention let alone fix any challenges that may be identified.
Brother John, since you started your campaign I have not heard about anything new that you want to do as the head of state. Either you will review or improve on what Nana Addo has done. Don't you have any ideas of managing a nation or you do not have advisers? What about those following you? I think they are only there to chop your money. Even your small boy, Kojo Bonsu is promising to impliment new ideas for the grassroots and all you continue to do is to review or improve on Nana's ideas. Try and come out with your own ideas
This John Ford Mahama guy is a conman...... Tell us how you will fix it........