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A Senior Law lecturer at the University of Ghana Law School, Dr. Raymond Atuguba has said that without any legislation binding all political parties to sustain the Akufo-Addo government’s Free Senior High School [SHS] policy, it can collapse at anytime.

Speaking at a constitutional review conference at Dodowa, today (Friday), on retooling the constitution from a political to a developmental one, the senior law lecturer at the University of Ghana Law School stated that the country needs a long term development plan that will bind the programme forever, before any political party who is not in line with it decides to call it off.

“We need a long term development plan that is binding on all governments, binding at a certain level of governance that for example every government will say implement free SHS,” he stated.

Dr. Atuguba is of the hope that a legislative instrument, through constitution review, will protect the Free SHS policy from political interference.

“Let’s say that NDC wins in 2020 or 2024, you know they can cancel free SHS? what sense does that make? but right now without any binding national development plan, they can do that. With a binding national development plan, it indicates that every government must work progressively towards free SHS and no government can go against the laws binding it. And they can even add that when a government does that the system can go to the Supreme Court and stop them,” he said.