The 2020 running mate to former president John Dramani Mahama, Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has called on Ghanaians to treat with disdain claims by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had no single social intervention programme while in government.
"Please... please... does the Vice President and his cohorts in the New Patriotic Party know what social intervention is?" she questioned.
"As a party, we reduced the textbook ratio at the primary schools and doubled the number of textbooks to a child at the basic school level," she said.
She explained that the NDC built E-blocks across the country and the NPP out of ignorance said it was built in the bush.
She corrected the notion that no school was built in town saying, "many of the schools in town today have all suffered encroachment."
"Progressively, free education was a social intervention if they care to know," she added.
The first female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast was speaking in an interview with Mr Emmanuel Quarshie (The Hitman) the host of Ghana Yensom morning show on Accra 100.5 FM on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
In her view, the NPP and Dr Bawumia do not know what social intervention is. She said "the NDC transformed polytechnics into technical universities to develop lower and middle-level skills and to offer technical support to add value."
"As a party, we developed the Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) concept which the NPP has taken to town," she noted.
These, she said, were the list of social intervention programmes the NDC introduced.
According to her, the NDC transformed teacher training colleges into colleges of education to add value to teaching.
Source: class fm
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To the NDC, if you provide chalk for schools, it's a social intervention, and the NDC must well be commended for that. What a midiocracy, and yet the good professor is demanding big applause. While previously only the wealthy could send their children to senior high schools, the NPP administration made FHS available to all. Despite initial, significant bottlenecks due to infrastructural deficiencies, they were able to contain the situation and make it work. Ghanaians are aware of the massive infrastructure development underway to transform the colonial educational system into a skill and technical education system that is globally competitive. That is policy intervention that any competent person will recognize. Yet the good professor has lost her reasoning.
madam, madam, madam! how many times have I called you. you aren't ashamed of the things you have mentioned as social intervention programs as a professor compared to what the NPP as a party has done over the years even though you PNDC/NDC has ruled Ghana for many years more than any other party. even the so-called E-Blocks, your government completed 29 but the NPP has completed 31 including building of dormitories to those that you completed in the bushes as day schools. the secondary schools that were built in the bushes you spoke about were boarding schools and not day schools if you care to know madam Prof.