A 2008 audio tape has exposed the hypocrisy of President John Dramani Mahama with regards to the provision of free senior high school education, as espoused by the 2012 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, for all school going children across the country.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's free senior high school education policy, first stated in 2008, which intends to ensure every Ghanaian child has the opportunity of at least finishing senior high school without any impediment has been bastardised by President John Dramani Mahama and functionaries of the NDC.
Barely six days ago, President John Dramani Mahama stated that Nana Akufo-Addo's �free SHS will collapse Ghana�s education policy.� At other forums, the President has also stated that the access, and not affordability is the problem limiting entrance of Ghanaian children into Senior High Schools.
However, an interview granted by John Dramani Mahama to ASTA Fm, in the run up to the 2nd round of the 2008 general election, has revealed President Mahama�s hypocrisy.
In the interview, John Mahama is heard promising all parents that when the NDC is voted into office, it will deliver free secondary education for all Children, stating categorically that �the NDC has a free education policy at the secondary level.�
John Mahama promised that no day student attending a senior high school in Ghana was going to pay fees. He added that his administration will ensure that parents whose wards attended day secondary schools in the country will not pay fees as his government will absorb the cost of these fees.
John Mahama further added that �students in boarding schools will no longer pay utility bills.�
He continued that the NDC government was going to make sure that they engaged the heads of these institutions to ensure that feeding fees of students were reduced to ensure that free education at the secondary level become affordable for parents.�
Fast forward to 2012 and President John Mahama and his ruling National Democratic Congress have failed to honour this promise as parents continue to pay fees for their wards attending senior high schools.
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