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Renowned Journalist Abdul Malik Kweku Baako says it will be a suicide mission for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to think of scrapping the double-track system when it comes back to power.

The NDC says even though the free SHS has come to stay, the double-track system will be scrapped.

In its 2020 People's Manifesto, it indicated that, “we have every plan and desire to make the free SHS much better by ensuring that numerous challenges are addressed and that higher operational and academic standards are introduced and sustained. To do this, we will abolish the double-track system.”

The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper who was contributing to a panel discussion on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo' however opined that it is impossible to scrap the double-track system since it goes hand in hand with the Free SHS policy.

According to him, "You cancel double track and you’ll kill that baby(Free SHS)".

Time Frame

Kweku Baako has also urged the NDC to give a time frame and a plan on how to take away the double-track system.

“Double-track is essential though a transitional feature of the Free SHS, you toy with the idea that you’ll cancel but you don’t give a time frame. I think this government gave a time frame (5 years) to phase out double-track system. This was a pragmatic reaction to a herculean task.  The NDC should tell us when they will cancel the double-track system. What is the time frame, one, two, or three years? In fact, it is an unrealistic proposition, it ought not to be canvassed. If you put this in your manifesto and you proceed on that you’ll within a year collapse the system.”