NDC would not abolish the free SHS policy – Mahama

January 20, 2019 Editor Politics 0

former president John Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama

Former President John Mahama has debunked claims that a National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration will abolish the Free SHS policy if given the mandate to govern.

He said contrary to reports, the NDC is against not the policy and has no intentions to scrap it.

Mr Mahama said what he disagrees with and finds completely unacceptable is the double track system.

“I know the benefits of education to the fortunes of development and so NDC would provide the necessary infrastructure to accommodate all students at once.”

The former President said his party started the free SHS programme with day students and was working gradually to provide the required infrastructure to accommodate the students and could therefore not kick against it.

He was addressing members of the NDC in Koforidua as part of his five-day tour of the Eastern Region to woo delegates to their upcoming presidential primaries to give their votes to him.

Mr Mahama warned that the double track arrangement under the free SHS could destroy the quality of the country’s education.

He told the gathering to ignore what he said were unfounded allegations that he owned a hotel in Dubai and had other huge investments abroad.

Again, he said his government never issued the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah with a diplomatic passport.

He equally discounted claims that his wife has any investments in the troubled gold trading company.

Mr Mahama who is in the race for the NDC presidential ticket with four others asked the delegates to vote for him. 

He said he would bring victory to the party in 2020 and that Ghanaians “have regretted” the mistake of voting in the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

He pledged to work with everybody including his other contestants if elected by the delegates.

“Whoever emerges the winner, we should all support him to wrestle power from the NPP,” he said.

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