President John Dramani Mahama has accused the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) of double-standards concerning their stance on his government’s removal of training allowances for teachers and nurses.
“The duplicity of the NPP is so appalling. History is a very important subject and you must always remember your past so that it guides you to the future,” Mr Mahama said in an interview with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation’s Sunrise FM in Koforidua as part of his tour of the Eastern Region.
Government replaced the allowances with student loans. Officialdom also said the allowances were scrapped, in the case of teachers, as a way of circumventing the quota system which put a cap on admissions.
The NPP has always accused the Mahama administration of not having the interest of nurses and teachers at heart thus the removal of the allowances.
But Mr Mahama insists that the NPP is being deceitful and dishonest. According to him, a document dated 9th June 2008 concerning guidelines and preparations for the 2009 budget signed by then Deputy Minister of Health, under the erstwhile Agyekum Kufour administration suggested that: “The management of the wage component has been a major challenge and to face the challenge… trainee allowance to the new entrants for the Diploma Programmes in the various training institutions will be abolished. Allowances to the continuing students will also be phased out. All students will be encouraged to seek funding under the student loan scheme”.
“Today, the same NPP party turns around and says that we are wicked to remove trainee allowances”.
He added that in 2008 under then Minister of Education, Dr Baah Wiredu, a document indicated that “they had budgeted for 245,000 teachers and they said that: ‘Do not employ any teacher above the 245,000 teachers’ and that if you employ, they will not pay”. “It seems the NPP has forgotten its past and because of opportunism of trying to win political power, you [NPP] just come and make criticisms,” he added.
Mr Mahama stressed that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has employed an unprecedented number of teachers and nurses in the country.
According to him, “from 2009 till date, this government has employed 78, 000 teachers – unprecedented – the highest number in the history of the country. From 2013, when I became president, we have employed 23,000 nurses – unprecedented – the highest number ever in the history of this country”.
For him, the facts do not support criticisms that his government has failed to provide jobs for teachers and nurses.
Source: classfmonline.com
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Mahama is like a student who is so dull that he copies anything from his fellow student in the exam room. When he fails he turns round to blame the person he copied from. Mahama has not developed any original idea and have been copying from documents left by the NPP, good or bad, because he finds it difficult to differentiate seed from chaff. Mahama, publish these documents you are talking about. What are you going to copy in your next 4 years, in the unlikely event that you become president again? I think Ghanaians should vote for NPP, because they always bring out original ideas which they shape into development. I know you will agree with me.
Mahama is desperate. So if NPP say you are incompetent its true b'cos if they say something and you know its bad yet u implement it and tend round to blame the NPP. Shame. Frustrated and a losing President.
Is that ur concern? What about your uncompetence? This election is about your stupiiiiidity. We are sacking u bcos of it. Fuuuuuulish edioooot
OOOOH POOR INDECISIVE PRES MAHAMA, WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE?, YOU PROMISED BUILDING 200 HIGH SCHOOLS, 50 EACH YEAR FOR 4YEARS AND YOU END UP STARTING 78 AND COMPLETING 46 IN 4 YEARS, shame, U ASKED FOR A CHANGE IN 2008 AND HAD IT, NOW YOU SAYING CHANGE RETROGRESSES DEVELOPMENT, double standard. U PROMISE ONETIME NHIS PREMIUM END UP TO BE A LIE, liar. U PROMISE QUALITY AND FREE EDUCATION BUT FEES ARE RATHER GOING UP YEARLY, Deceit. we cant trust you anymore......
That is NPP for you, full of liars and a brutal dictator as a leader. When NPP was about to take power they promised that they will reduce fuel prices only to come and increased it, they lied that they will put rail way line from Accra to the North only to come and sell existing rail line as scrap. They came to loot and and share and have never completed any single housing unit as they promised. Ghana was bleeding, people were hungry and the country's infrastructure was falling apart. Now go round and see the infrastructural development Mahama has done in 4 years and compare with NPP cheap toilets. JM TOASO
I hope u people dont want to go heaven becouse of these politiciians u always leave your parents and insult your leaders go on to isults them, God is patiently waiting to punish you for that becouse its His comand to usn
Hahahaha JM your brain be small oooo. U are crying like the village boy who was told fish from soup taste better.he goes to steal fish from soup n was caught n now you turn around crying n pointing your finger at ur brother to say ur senior brother told U to steal. Hahahaha hahahaha president paaa nie.u hv goofed big time. Were u not de same person who promised better Ghana.? So u were copying from a document lol. U hv sh1.t on yourself(say it in twi)
Massa so what is your message? Always selling your opponents ideas?
and so!
Masa stop this serial caller thing. NPP say they will bring it back period