Education Minister Fears Ndc Would Cancel Free SHS

MINISTER OF Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh aka ‘Napo’, who successfully led the introduction of the Free Senior High School (SHS), as a national policy has said ex-President Mahama would be  a threat to the social intervention programme if the National Democratic Congress(NDC) is voted back to power.

 

According to him, former President John Mahama and the NDC have never liked the free SHS programme. He said the NDC would collapse the policy, should the party win the next polls.

 

Napo also descended heavily on the NDC, the main opposition political party in the country, sternly warning that the NDC posed a great threat to all other positive policies, introduced by President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government.

 

“The NDC will not hesitate to cancel the free SHS policy because they have never liked the policy, which has helped to significantly increase enrolment in the various Senior High Schools in the country within just three years.

 

“It is not only the free SHS that Mr. Mahama will collapse when he becomes president again, he will also stop all the other positive policies, introduced by the NPP administration to better the lives of the citizenry.

 

“All the road construction works going on across the regions in the country would stop, the infrastructure projects would cease and abject poverty would surely return if we mistakenly return the NDC into power”, Napo added

 

He  was addressing NPP members during the inauguration of the Manhyia South NPP Election Campaign Team on Sunday. He used the occasion to admonish the electorates to vote massively and retain the NPP in political office.

 

The campaign team is made up of 30 active members of the NPP and it is co-chaired by Napo and Gabriel Anane, the Manhyia South Constituency NPP Chairman. The team has been tasked to work and increase NPPs votes.

 

Napo further urged the NPP members to preach about the uncountable positive achievements of the President Nana Akufo-Addo-led government in order to attract more votes for the party in December 7.

 

When you go out to campaign, he said “tell the people four more for Nana means four more for free SHS, jobs, employment, infrastructure and road projects, just to mention a few, to attract the necessary votes we need to retain power”.

 

According to him, the NPP government has introduced several landmark projects and positive social intervention policies to better the lives of the ordinary Ghanaian so the strong need for the NPP to campaign about them.

 

Napo, who is the NPP Parliamentary Candidate for Manhyia South for the upcoming polls, confidently predicted that the NPP would win 95 percent of total valid votes cast in the constituency to help the party to retain power.

 

In line with this, he announced that an election campaign teams would be formed among the polling station executives and electoral area coordinators so that they could easily win more votes from the grassroot members.

 

Gabriel Anane, the Manhyia South NPP Chairman, whose address was brief, gave an assurance that the NPP is ready and committed to campaign and win more votes so that President Nana Akufo-Addo and Napo would emerge victorious.

 

Yahaya Salifu, the Ashanti Regional NPP Deputy Youth Organizer, who swore the campaign team into office, said the party is expecting not less than 90 percent of votes in the constituency on the day of elections, December 7.