The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says that the Free Senior High School programme would not have been in existent if the National Democratic Congress had won the 2016 elections.
Speaking at a durbar at Kwame Danso in the Sene West constituency on Wednesday, October 21, 2020, the Vice President noted that the NDC has no capacity to implement the Free SHS.
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“President Akufo-Addo’s promise to make Senior High School Education in Ghana free was met with a lot of scepticism from the National Democratic Congress. In 2016, the NDC said we couldn’t deliver the Free Senior High School Programme. They said we couldn’t do it.”
Adding that:”The NDC were unable to pay Arabic Instructor’s allowances and teacher trainee’s allowances which were GHS70 million. If they couldn’t pay for those, how then could they have paid for the Free SHS which cost GHS2.2 billion? If the NDC were still in power, we wouldn’t have the free SHS programme,” Dr. Bawumia said.
Source:www.Ghgossip.com
