The Minority in Parliament has responded to Dennis Miracles Aboagye, the communications director for the Bawumia Campaign Team,’s call for former President John Dramani Mahama to disclose his review of the free Senioe high school policy.
The Minority argues that the Bawumia campaign team’s attacks on the former president were unnecessary and an attempt to avoid genuine issues and concerns raised by the NDC candidate about the poor management of the President and Vice President’s policy.
Dennis Miracles Aboagye slammed Mr. Mahama the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Mahama over his consistent attack on the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy.
The former president has pledged to review the Free SHS policy within 100 days of his election in the 2024 general elections.
He has since been criticising the implementation of the flagship policy.
Miracles Aboagye opined that the consistent attack of the policy by John Mahama is unwarranted considering his stance prior to implementation of the policy.
He has therefore asked for clarity on the mode in which the former president seeks to reveiw the policy.
But reacting Dr. Clement Apaak, a Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Education Committee Dr. Apaak, who is the MP for Builsa South, said contrary to allegations by the NPP that he (Mahama) has planned to cancel the policy, he rather wants it to make it better than what we have witnessed under the NPP.
In a statement, he stated that the former president held a very successful meeting with the leadership of CHASS on how to address the challenges affecting teaching and learning in our secondary schools on April 8th, 2024.
The meeting he revealed was successful, and Mr. Mahama has promised to work with them to address their concerns when he gets the nod.
He restated his intention to convene a national stakeholders forum to deliberate on the FSHS programme as a first step towards reviewing it to make it better, he said.
Dr. Apaak explained that the former had proposed several ideas that the government has failed to use, including the decentralisation of feeding arrangements in our secondary school system to ensure that feeding grants go directly to schools to procure food for students.
“Equally, his promise to end the obnoxious double track system by completing uncompleted structures and adding new ones, to increase educational infrastructure also received commendation.”
He then slammed Dr. Bawumia and challenged him to be honest and tell Ghanaians that the current government he is a part of told the IMF that the FSHS Programme would be reviewed and rationalised.
“DMB should be bold enough to tell Ghanaians, that JDM was right in calling for a review of the FSHS Programme just as he represented government to admit to the IMF, as captured, on page 76 paragraph 47 of the first review of the IMF program.
Instead of DMB and his camp focusing on how to rescue their flopped campaign, they are busy pushing the stale and impotent lie, that JDM will collapse FSHS. No reasonable Ghanaian believes the nonsensical claim that JDM will cancel FSHS.”
Read the full statement below
STATEMENT: IGNORE THE STALE LIE – FSHS WILL THRIVE UNDER JDM
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For the information of DMB and his camp, JDM held a very successful meeting with the leadership of CHASS on how to address the challenges affecting teaching and learning in our secondary schools on April 8th, 2024.
Why would JDM waste precious time by engaging the heads of our secondary schools to discuss how to resolve challenges bedevilling the implementation of the FSHS policy if he intends to cancel FSHS?
At the meeting, JDM listened to the long list of challenges narrated by the heads of our secondary schools and promised to work with them to address their raised concerns when he gets the nod. He restated his intention to convene a national stakeholders forum to deliberate on the FSHS Programme as a first step towards reviewing it to make it better.
JDM’s position on the decentralisation of the feeding arrangements in our secondary school system to ensure that feeding grants go directly to schools to procure food for students, was welcomed.
Equally, his promise to end the obnoxious double track system by completing uncompleted structures and adding new ones, to increase educational infrastructure also received commendation.
If DMB is honest and worth his salt, he should tell Ghanaians that the current government he is a part of told the IMF that the FSHS Programme will be reviewed and rationalised.
The duplicity of DMB is affirmed by the fact that he, the vice President, was captured in the said report, dated January 2024, as the highest government official who represented government during the review meeting with the IMF. Why was he comfortable telling the IMF the truth but continues deceiving Ghanaians, that review means cancel?
DMB should be bold enough to tell Ghanaians, that JDM was right in calling for a review of the FSHS Programme just as he represented government to admit to the IMF, as captured, on page 76 paragraph 47 of the first review of the IMF program.
Instead of DMB and his camp focusing on how to rescue their flopped campaign, they are busy pushing the stale and impotent lie, that JDM will collapse FSHS. No reasonable Ghanaian believes the nonsensical claim that JDM will cancel FSHS.
FSHS will thrive and blossom under JDM as President because he will work with stakeholders to fix the challenges.
Dr. Clement Apaak
MP, Builsa South and Deputy Ranking Member on the Education Committee of Parliament
Source: rainbowradioonline.com
