Minister of Education, Mathew Opoku-Prempeh has slammed President John Dramani Mahama for criticizing government’s Free Senior High School (SHS) policy.
“While in office, Mahama never bought one text book for any school. Ask him where his policy document or guideline for his progressive free SHS is?. There was nothing like that. You were not able to do it in your time and now that we have implemented it, you are complaining…he should tell NDC members not to take their children to school to enjoy the free SHS because it is not good”, he said on Accra based radio, Peace FM.
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Mr. Opoku-Prempeh’s comment follows a call by former President, John Dramani Mahama, for a stakeholder’s conference to address challenges associated with the implementation of the free Senior High School policy.
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He said the current implementation, if not properly handled could derail the entire purpose of the free SHS programme.
“It will do the government good, if we have a stakeholders conference and agree on the pace of implementation to free funds for other important projects like the ‘one district one factory’ and the ‘one village one dam programmes’,” he said.
He accused the government of pushing all available resources into funding the free SHS programme to the extent that government now had no funds for the District Assemblies Common Fund, National Health Insurance Scheme, GETFUND and other statutory payments.
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But Mathew Opoku-Prempeh popularly known as Napo, wondered why the NDC including President Mahama wishes the downfall of the policy when they failed to implement it during their regime.
“If he wishes us bad, it will fall back on him…what does he want us to call a stakeholders meeting for. Mahama is not the best person to tell us about how to run this policy because he is not fit for that. He should give us a break”, he warned.
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The minister further stated that Government was working hard to fix all issues surrounding the Free SHS policy so that the quality of education is not affected.
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