As President John Mahama takes his thank you tour to the Northern Region, he may have to reconsider instituting a free education policy as part of his agenda for the 2012 elections.
That is because a school girl in Tamale, who was one of the hundreds of admirers who trooped to the Tamale Airport to welcome the president, begged for free education.
�We are here to see our president. We want to hear [something great] from him,� she said.
When Joy FM asked what she wanted to hear from the president, the girl said: �He should give us free education and we can be able to go to school well,� in apparent backing of Nana Akufo-Addo, New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate�s promise to make Senior High School free
The young girl had been at the airport since Sunday, anxiously waiting for the president.
According to the report, the Tamale Airport was crammed by supporters of the NDC, with school children waving miniature Ghana flags.
Another NDC supporter from Bole, the hometown of the president, said he �has come to welcome the president and to wish him well in his bid to continue the better Ghana agenda started by the late president John Mills�.
The president interacted with residents yesterday at the Jubilee Park in Tamale.
He has already been to the Central, Western, Volta, Upper East and West, Eastern and Brong Ahafo regions to thank Ghanaians for their prayers and support during the funeral and burial of late President Mills in what some other people have described as campaign tour.
2 Crash To Death
In another development, two persons were confirmed dead in Tamale on the arrival of President Mahama.
According to Mashoud Maxwell, a freelance journalist, the deceased crashed into a car at the Tamale Airport junction in a rush to catch a glimpse of the president.
Reckless riding of motorbikes in the Tamale metropolis is characteristic of all the political parties� youth during the arrival of their flagbearers.
President Mahama arrived in Tamale Monday afternoon for the thank you tour.
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