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The Deputy National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Chief Hamilton Biney says the government’s Free SHS policy lacks adequate planning, hence will adversely impact the intake of students into the tertiary institutions.

According to Chief Biney, the free SHS programme was done in haste without forecasting all future impediment.

His comment comes on the heels of calls from the Chairman of Vice-Chancellors Ghana (V-CG), Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu to the government to support public Universities with infrastructure and logistics to enable them admit more students following the introduction of the free SHS education policy.

The appeal by the Vice-Chancellor is also to aid the first batch of beneficiaries of the policy to qualify for tertiary education this year.

Addressing the issue on UTV’s “Adekye Nsroma” programme, Chief Biney said, “it is not enough to implement free SHS but should be concerned of the available infrastructure to absorb all the students into the university. The government should have forecast that after SHS.”

“The motive behind free SHS is to allow all the children to go to school; if so, don’t we equally want them to further their education to the University level?” he questioned.

“ . . as we speak there is no plan . . . it is clear the government has implemented free SHS without any future plan . . . that is why former President Mahama has promised to review the policy when given the nod in the 2020 elections,” he asserted.