Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta’s suggestion that the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy must be implemented discriminatorily so that those who have the means, pay for their children’s second-cycle education, is sensible, former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has said.
Mr Ofori-Atta, speaking on Citi TV, said: “I don’t think it [Free SHS] is something any of us can compromise on”, adding that: “It may be that there have to be changes in the way in which we are administering it”.
“I can’t take my child to Achimota or Odorgonno and then leave him or her and drive away and Ken Ofori-Atta not pay anything while I can pay for 10 people. … You need to get the data to then be discriminatory in how and who pays and who doesn’t pay”, he said.
Speaking about the next academic year, he said: “You actually going to have, maybe, 180,000 more people but it’s so important, you’d rather make that mistake – if it is a mistake – to get everybody in the system for the nation to then begin to have a conversation and say: ‘OK, this is good for us because we want that human capital and to a certain level, but maybe let’s begin to adjust it this way’”
Reacting to these comments on ClassFM Tuesday, 24 July 2018, Prof Adei said: “The only thing is that it is difficult to assess the income of people in Ghana, apart from those in formal employment.
“It makes sense but it is not going to be easy to implement such a suggestion. If you are not careful, you will find out that a few higher income-earning people [on] whose salary, taxes have been increased, are going to be the same persons who will fall into that bracket.
“It is a dicey issue, I don’t see why a billionaire should be having their children go to school for free.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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Professor you have hit the hammer on the nail properly .We are pretending like we are blind and do not want to listen any view and just implement and we are now have cantankerous problems that if we had listened in the beginning we would no 4th be having. There must a proper designed form with all the necessary ingredients to know the status of the family and we need to design a proper database analysis if we want to continue this SO CALLED FREE SHS when the constitution said PROGRESSIVELY FREE EDUDYCATION. POLITICAL HOTDOGS ARE JUST MISBEHAVING AND THEY NEED TO ARRESTED TO COME TO UNDERSTANDING
there is no sense in what the professor is saying. the poor should also pay the same tax as the billionaire. why is it that, whenever it comes to payment the rich but when it comes to enjoyment the poor ? everybody should enjoy free SHS becos its a national policy. God is not selling air on diff px to the poor and the billionaire. Prof come again
Please Prof you cannot equally force a billionaire's children not to enjoy free SHS policy. It should be decided by the individual. I want to believe when most of our leaders grow past the age 70 they think like Nursery kids.
You can't see? Are you blind?
A policy for free SHS should be for all. Doesnt the billionaire also pay taxes and usually more than the ordinary. Ken with your GH 10,000 over you are going to tax them more to educate others. Are they not Ghanaians, you said free education for all so must it be. If a person doesn't want then they can go to the International School and pay. That is the policy. Same thing happened, but it was wisely executed, when fees were free in the Northern Ghana, all benefited irrespective of social status. Ghanaians should kick against this approach which is pure discrimination. I am very disappointed in you and Prof Adae
This is apology of a professor again...senile...sterile....who awarded him his...may be it is AkufoAddoNan...Compare what he opens his mouth widely like a wild boar to say ...with what other qualified professors say...seems what comes out of his mouth stinks...not trustworthy...fuuuuuh......dirty talks...deceptive and a liar...unprofessioanl conduct!!! And they say he is a Church elder in Pentecost Church....
Why are you telling us? Were you not the architect of the policy??
An apology of an apology of a professor. A disgraced in fact stomach professor. God save Ghana. JM u are a saint, if npp thinks that I why they are bring jean men say then they shoul ask JM about charlotte osei.we deserve it as a country we swallowed their lies like fufu
i totally disagree with the finance minister because i see this as segregation and also the son of the rich man paying fees would have the tendency of intimidating those who don't pay fees.Secondly, naturally favors would be showered on those who pay fees.My view is that if you have money and thinks our systems are not good then you can enroll at Cornerstone International Academy, GIS, Al Riyan, Galaxy International etc.
Stoipid Ghanaian leaders...........u don't think through before implementing policies....prof where were u when the noise was being made by the empty barrels to woo voters.......let the free be free.....and keep ur concerns to urself