Former president of the
Republic of Ghana and flagbearer of the NDC political party, John Dramani
Mahama has given rise to a hot debate amongst fanatics of both the NPP and NDC
political parties.
Speaking during a rally, John Mahama
addressed concerns raised by Ghanaians most especially members of the ruling
NPP party that he will cancel the free SHS policy if he’s voted into power once
again.
According
to John Mahama, it will be very evil of him to cancel a cost-relief policy he
started. As stated by the aspiring president, it is common sense defying to
scrap an overwhelming beneficial policy he started.
“This
government has a lot of doublespeak when it comes to Free SHS, well they say I
left a debt of GH¢39 million on implementation of free SHS…The point I’m making
is that how can I be against Free SHS when I started Free SHS? progressively
though. But I started Free SHS so how can I be against it…”
“They said no, you didn’t start Free SHS yet they say you left a
debt for Free SHS in the 2015/2016 academic year”
He
quizzed.
Continuing
with his sentiments, John Mahama further stated that the double-track system
introduced by the ruling NPP party has retrogressed the free SHS policy he
began.
“If
the schools we were building had been continued, we’ll not have double-track
today and so our strategy is that some of the schools that are near
completion…it won’t take much to complete them…”
Meanwhile,
the controversial Free SHS policy was fully implemented in September 2017, just
a year after the Akufo-Addo-led government took over power from the Mahama
administration.
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