{"id":1312,"date":"2019-08-15T12:53:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2019-08-15T12:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:53:12","slug":"mahama-backtracks-on-free-shs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mahama-backtracks-on-free-shs","title":{"rendered":"Mahama Backtracks On Free SHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-President Mahama receiving a certificate from the organisers of the programme<\/p>\n<p><strong>FORMER PRESIDENT John Dramani Mahama has finally admitted in public that the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy introduced by the Akufo-Addo<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>administration is the best so it should be sustained.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Free SHS programme is here to stay,\u201d these were the exact<br \/>\nwords of Mr. Mahama in Kumasi yesterday, attracting wild applause from his huge<br \/>\naudience at the Kumasi Technical University campus during the official opening<br \/>\nof the Ghana National Union of Technical Students (GNUTS) 27th Annual<br \/>\nResidential Delegates Congress.<\/p>\n<p>His comments clearly contradict earlier plans by himself and leading<br \/>\nmembers of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who have been<br \/>\naccused of threatening to collapse the Free SHS policy if they regain power.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mahama, who appeared candid, stated emphatically that no<br \/>\ngovernment in the country could collapse the Free SHS programme, which he said<br \/>\nis a positive social intervention policy to benefit the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Free SHS programme is here to stay; indeed, it is a policy that is guaranteed by the 1992 Constitution of our<br \/>\ncountry so nobody or government can reverse it,\u201d Mr. Mahama pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Despite criticisms and opposition from the NDC, the New Patriotic<br \/>\nParty (NPP) government successfully introduced the Free SHS policy just seven<br \/>\nmonths after assuming the mantle of leadership of the state in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mahama after praising the policy then turned round to lambast the<br \/>\nNPP administration for allowing several challenges to confront the Free SHS<br \/>\nprogramme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my first three months in political office in 2021, I will call<br \/>\na major stakeholders\u2019 meeting, where parents, guardians and teachers, among others, will assemble to give solutions to how to properly manage the Free SHS policy,\u201d he said confidently.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it is the core duty of every government to make<br \/>\nthe Free SHS programme \u201cqualitative and enjoyable for the students, who are the<br \/>\nbeneficiaries and my administration will ensure just that\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The former President also said he would complete the remaining day secondary school projects, which were part of the 200 new schools he started, which he claimed had been left in the bush to rot by the NPP government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-President Mahama receiving a certificate from the organisers of the programme FORMER PRESIDENT John Dramani Mahama has finally admitted in public that the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy introduced by the Akufo-Addo administration is the best so it should be sustained. \u201cThe Free SHS programme is here to stay,\u201d these were the exact words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[313,765,49],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-former-president","tag-free-shs-policy","tag-john-dramani-mahama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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