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Former General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party [CPP], Yaw Asani Tano, says he perfectly agrees with the Teacher Unions who are against government’s move to public-privatize Ghana’s educational system.

According to him, he is very worried as to why this country can never pin-point to what it has used our God-blessed resources for without seeking foreign assistance.

“Our attitude of borrowing before something is done . . . is an action I always feel very disgraced about as a citizen,” he said on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ programme.

“Our educational system needs reforms, but not from outside intervention which is to borrow from the World Bank as government is embarking on, because we have all the resources in this country to buffer our educational structure,” he said.

He further explained that the leaders of this country should be tired of borrowing to get something done in this country when most of them benefited from free education years ago when Ghana had not developed to where it is today.

“Don’t they sit for a second to analyze the future of this country, before taking a final decision?” he asked.

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) Ghana and the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (Tewu), are the four Teacher Unions who have accused government of allowing a public-private partnership into education, a move they think is risky for the country.

They claim government has for the past two years engaged an international private agency and secured $150 million to be invested into education.

They said government must ditch any such decision or risk their massive resistance.