Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh aka ‘Napo’
EDUCATION Minister, Dr.
Matthew Opoku Prempeh aka ‘Napo’, insists the free Senior
High School (SHS) policy will not survive under a National Democratic Congress
(NDC) government.
Consequently, he has
admonished Ghanaians to renew the mandate of President Nana Akufo-Addo in 2020
to ensure the progress of the positive social intervention policy.
Sounding peeved, he said
several NDC lieutenants, led by ex-President Mahama, who is a beneficiary of
free education, have warned to collapse the free SHS programme should they win
power again.
Napo therefore entreated the
citizenry to, at all times, vote massively for the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
since it is the only political party that has the interest and proper progress
of the country at heart.
He wondered why the NDC could
even think about collapsing a policy like the free SHS, which has so far made
it possible for every Ghanaian school-going child to be in school and get
educated, when they get power.
According to him, Mr. Mahama,
NDC General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah and ex-Minister of Education,
Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman, have publicly vowed to collapse the policy if
NDC wins power.
Napo stated that the NDCs’
open threats against the free SHS policy should not be swept under the carpet,
saying that the only way to protect the free SHS policy, is to vote massively
for Nana Akufo-Addo in 2020.
In an interview with Asempa FM,
the Education Minister, who doubles as MP for Manhyia South, noted that the
NDCs claims that there are not enough infrastructure for the free SHS programme
is not convincing.
He asked if there were enough
classrooms when Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, introduced free
Education in the northern parts of Ghana, of which Mr. Mahama benefitted from.
“Mr. Mahama’s father was a
minister and rich at the time, yet he took his son (Mahama) from Achimota to
the north to benefit from free education. Ask Mahama whether we had enough
infrastructures at the time?”
According to Napo, Mr. Mahama
recently turned to state that he would review the free SHS policy when elected
as president “after his earlier threats to collapse the positive policy was
condemned by Ghanaians”.
He, however, stated that no mean a personality like the NDC General Secretary, Asiedu Nketiah, has still been insisting that the NDC would collapse the free SHS policy, so his threats should be taken serious.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi
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