It is very unfortunate to find Mr. Mahama and his cronies go to play mischief and cruel propaganda against the free SHS programme in our secondary schools.
In most cases lately, we can find ex President Mahama, Akamba and Sammy Gyamfi, in their desperate quest go to some senior high schools to play cruel and insensitive propaganda against the free SHS programme. A strategy I find disheartening, cheap and a conduct I least expected Mr. Mahama to venture, because, he is stooping so low!
But, I want Mr. Mahama to tell us the merits of these pettiness against the free SHS programme, because as best as I know, the free SHS policy has come as a good to the less privileged child. Or is he trying to confirm the suspicion that, 'the NDC thrives on illiteracy' and hence sees the free SHS as a threat to their political expediency?
Also, if he cares to know, I want to inform him that over 500,000 students in Ghana now are enjoying from the same programme he once benefited from during his time as a student at Tamale Secondary School.
Again, Mr. Mahama must be informed that in the second phase of the programme, an additional number of 200,000 would be added making it almost a double of the number of students who had access to secondary education under his tenure. So, I would have preferred he praised President Akufo Addo rather than his insensitive propaganda against the free SHS programme.
It becomes really annoying to find Mahama and his cohorts go to senior high schools only to malign this policy by cheaply claiming those schools lack certain basic amenities and hence, blames President Akufo Addo for allowing education to be free.
I do not seem to understand Mahama, because as best as we all know, these schools existed during your tenure as President and so, what did you do to solve these challenges? Or does he want to tell us that, President Akufo Addo has destroyed these basic amenities just by paying the school fees of our less privileged child?
He must know that he spent 8 years at the presidency and it's a shame to him to blame a government which is only 20 months in power over an infrastructure he should have provided. Sometimes aside looting, I wonder what right Mahama did as a President.
Citing some few examples, I expect him to act like Chairman Wontumi of the NPP, who provided over 800,000 school uniforms to school kids across the country during the time he, Mr. Mahama was President. It would be best he finds solutions to challenges he should have solved during his time as President, maybe that will give him some gains rather than the cheap stocks of propaganda he seems to play.
I equally ask hiM to act like the likes of Prof. Alabi, Bagbin and his other contenders who are acting with much maturity and campaigning devoid of such cruel tactics against the free SHS programme.
..Signed...
Andy Owusu
Aide, Ashanti Regional Chairman, NPP.
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I believe the NDC delegates are closely watching Mr Mahama. Campaign for primary election is to show delegates how one can improve the fortunes of the party by fostering unity and improving party structures. Mr Mahama is so incompetent that he does not even know the difference between primary elections and general elections. How sad we had this man as our president! I hope the other contestants are taking advantage of this defect in his campaign, which has no message for the delegates, and sell their ideals to them in the most effective way possible to them. Note, Mr Mahama, that your tantrums have no effect on the FREE SHS as it is here to stay.
someone needs to talk to wontumi and his boys. It is only in Ghana people do not take stakeholders views but do anything because is a mainfesto promise. Andy Owusu should listen to I.K. Gyasi, Prof. Ivan Addae Mensah and Mr. Bannerman who are well vest in education matters to look at the problem in there and solve migating factors of the policy. If Andy Owusu has Ghana at heart he will channel on his mind on how to improve on the policy and stop the attack on people including the former president.
Free SHS is not free.