The Volta Regional Chapter of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on parents whose wards are in the second and third year in senior high school to resist paying school fees.
According to them, the Nana Akufo-Addo-led government promised the people of Ghana through their manifesto free education.
In a statement, the NDC said: “The NPP manifesto, chapter 9, page 107, says ‘they will redefine basic education to include SHS covering vocational, agricultural, and technical schools and make it available for free on a universal basis to all Ghanaians’ but what we are currently witnessing is not what was promised Ghanaians.”
The statement said the discrimination by government against those going to SHS 2 and 3 – a total of 565,404 students – must not be tolerated by Ghanaians “who believe government must be held to their promise”.
To this end, the NDC called on parents to resist any form of payment for their children going to SHS 2 and 3 and urged them to pour onto the streets if their demand is rejected.
The NDC said they started the Free SHS with a world bank facility of $156 million with 10,400 beneficiaries in 2014, hence they are not against the implementation of the programme but are concerned about the sustainability of the programme, the source of funding and making sure quality is not compromised.
The Free SHS policy kicked off across the country on Monday, 11 September 2017.
Source: classfmonline.com
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What is wrong with these NDC gurus? When u decided to bring the SHS from 4years to 3years, did u start with the freshers or those whowere at form 4 that time were brought to form 3. Grow up and know there is a start to everything and if u have started NAna would have continued fro where u stopped. Stop the propaganda and childish politics u are doing, jealousy is what is killing u people and i think u people need free SHS too. Even with cocoa scholarship there was a cut point.
Has NDC any human being in the party who can think positively.God have mercy on this party and change their demonic evil mentality of destruction.
This member of parliament is behaving like a kid that is entitled to something he hasn't work for. Very childish & exhibiting his ignorance. He could have channeled his grievances in more matured way as a grown adult.
Ask them why they started their NHIS capitation in the Ashanti region and said it was a pilot programme but kept it for three years,where was the one time premium for the NHIS they campaigned on in 2007,when we tell you these people are demonic possessed you think we see it for nothing? Ndc is demonic they don't want anything good for the country and they lie bad they will never come back to power. In any case they can tell their children to leave school who cares and they can choose to pay for their kids in the first year it's all by choice but they can't and have no right whatsoever to tell Ghanaians what is good for them. Just pay for kids in first year and withdraw those in 2 and 3 year but for Ghanaians we are happy with this first start of the SHS. If ndc are able to bring back Ghana's looted money then we will have enough money to pay for the others. Akronfuo with no shame. Ndc is curse and demonic party.
the demons have started again. they can not sleep bcos something good has come to the ple. I have no idea what kind if devil lives in this ndc ple but i know satan himself will not reject this free SHS. this tells me ndc is more devilish than the devil himself. they are doing everything possible to frustrate the policy knowing that it will keep them in opposition forever. evil ple with no heart.
WHEN NKRUMAH GOVERNMENT USED MY PARENT'S COCOA FARM MONEY TO PAY FEES FOR MAHAMA IN THE NORTH WHY DID YOU SAY WE IN THE SOUTH SHOULD ALSO NOT PAY FEES BUT SHOULD ALSO BENEFIT AS THE NORTHERNERS. LET COMMON SENSE PREVAIL.PUT YOUR THINKING CUP ON AND STOP THE N K W S I A S E M.
Note that these first year children are neither NDC nor NPP. Well NDC parents should not pay fees of their wards in SSH 2/3. The present government has taken a good step by implantation of this program. Taking the burden off of parents will provide some excess money for these families. You will be disingenuous in suggesting that parents should not pay for their 2/3 year students. I think good thinking parents who can afford to pay fees for their wards should pay if they want to, set up a scholarship to help parents who cannot afford. However nothing in this policy sounds bad to me.
Bad people with bad mind
This is a Skin Pain
this is a bad behaviour