A student group, Teachers and Trainees Advocacy (TTA) has warned former President John Mahama to stop deceiving Ghanaians about the cancellation of the Teacher Training allowance during his tenure in office.
According to TTA, comments by Mr Mahama to the effect that the trainee teachers allowance was not scrapped but rather replaced with Students’ Loan “is untrue and an arrant contradiction.”
"How can the allowance be at one instance not cancelled and another replaced with Students’ Loan Trust Fund,” TTA quizzes John Mahama who is leading the opposition NDC into the 2020 Presidential election.
TTA says in a statement dated July 15, 2020 that the trainee teachers allowance was a free mechanized payroll disbursement which had no repayment clauses and interest rate accruals to the consolidated fund.
It noted that the trainee allowance can not be replaced or substituted with a loan scheme which comes with a repayable clauses and massive stringent conditions before a teacher trainee could access the loan with Students Loan Trust Fund.
TTA says its research shows that only 30 percent trainees were able to go through the ordeals and difficult qualifying conditions to access the students loan, from the year 2013 to 2016 when the allowance was cancelled.
Source: Daily Guide
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Mr Mahama and his NDC have nothing to offer Ghanaians but to accomplish his mission to totally destroy the nation. He is not grateful to God for all the blessings gained. What he is waiting for complete disgrace which is just ahead of him. When one refuse to acknowledge God's blessings to him or her , the person end up with disgrace.
Mahama and his NDC should COMMOT FOR DEH .
The deceiver calling names. You have forgotten you deceived Ghanaians about one term premium payment of NHIS which you failed woefully leaving a debt of 1.2m cedis.
For real, only 30% got assess to the loan? This is so distressing indeed! It seems the students were put under more severe pressure than we could ever imagine. The students would forever be grateful to Nana Addo-Dankwa Akuffo- Addo, and they will show that by voting massively for him and his party come December 7, 2020