We will not cancel Free SHS -Mahama

The former President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the NDC government if voted into power in 2020 will not cancel the Free SHS policy as speculated.

The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over the weekend said the policy is here to stay and that naysayers and propagandists will be shamed.

But in a Facebook post, Mr Mahama said there are no “naysayers” when it comes to the free SHS as some NPP members have been propagating.

Mr Mahama who has called for a broader stakeholder consultation for Free SHS has been criticised by NPP supporters for prophesising doom for the policy.

‘Disagreement over the programme is about the optimal pace of implementation. A more carefully considered plan of implementation adopted by broad stakeholder consultation would have resulted in clear policies and guidelines, which would have avoided the current challenges plaguing the programme and putting our students in harms way,’ he said.

Read details of Mahama’s statement:

NDC WILL NOT REVERSE FREE SHS

There are no “naysayers” when it comes to free SHS. After all it was recognized and enshrined in our constitution by the ordinary people of this nation who gathered at the Consultative Assembly and drew up the 1992 constitution.

Disagreement over the programme is about the optimal pace of implementation. A more carefully considered plan of implementation adopted by broad stakeholder consultation would have resulted in clear policies and guidelines, which would have avoided the current challenges plaguing the programme and putting our students in harms way.

This view is not mine only. Many in the NPP and non-partisan civil society hold the same opinion. It is not too late to hold a national stakeholders forum on the Free SHS Programme in order to carry the whole nation along. The current legacy-seeking and ad hoc manner of implementation will multiply the current implementational problems over the next 3 years.

The false publication by a newspaper that the NDC will reverse free SHS is most laughable, false and diversionary.

Free SHS is constitutional, it must be implemented, but it must be implemented properly according to a clear plan that carries all stakeholders along.

By: Ghana/Ultimatefmonline.com/106.9FM

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The former President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the NDC government if voted into power in 2020 will not cancel the Free SHS policy as speculated. The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over the weekend said the policy is here to stay and that naysayers and propagandists will be shamed. But in a Facebook […]

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