Education Minister, Matthew Opoku Prempeh has said he is not ready to have his picture attached to a story which communicates the collpase of the country’s education.
Napo as he is known in an exclusive interview on Adom TV’s Bedwam said he is prepared to go the extra mile to ensure that the country’s education sector performs better.
“When foreigners come to analyse Ghana’s education, they compare it to that of Togo and other countries and later say that our education is bad, they then put the picture of the education minister by the side of the story, the minister obviously is not a teacher but the supervisor and I don’t want my picture or that of Nana Addo to be associated with failure…,” he said in the interview.
He continued that it is for this reason that he and the Akufo-Addo administration is in to implement policies that would help the country’s education become one of the best in the country.
And these policies, he said include the implementation of the free Senior High School (SHS) programme from the beginning of next academic year.
To him, it is unbelievable to have the NDC argue that free SHS was impossible when the former President, John Mahama is a product of free education being implemented in the north.
“If Kwame Nkrumah’s Minister’s son like Mahama had free education, why not that of a poor woman in Nzema…maybe, they can also become a President like Mahama and we don’t want to kill their dream,” he argued.
Watch his full interview on Adom TV below: