TTU lecturers criticize Mahama for Free SHS ‘indecision’

General news for Thursday, November 26, 2020

Source: 3 News

2020-11-26

A group of pro-New Patriotic Party (PNP) lecturers at Takoradi Technical University (TTU) opined that recent pronouncements by former President John Dramani Mahama about the Free Senior High School program are nothing more than calculated lies coupled with political stunts. and just throwing dust in the eyes of unsuspecting Ghanaians, all to convince them to vote for him and the NDC in the next election.

In an interview with 3news.com, Patriotic Intellectuals (PI) President Michael Asare Appiah said he is puzzled that the former president, who prior to his defeat in the 2016 general election was consistent that the Free Senior High School will not be successful, now he has made an interesting U-turn and states that he “introduced the program and will review it because the Free Senior High School program is here to stay.”

“I wonder how anyone will try to review something they don’t believe in. You spoke out against it, so you clearly don’t understand how the free high school program works. So how are you going to be able to review it if it is not discarded? ”He questioned.

He asked: “What has changed that you are doing theater in the Free SHS program? Is Free SHS no longer a whimsical promise from a desperate politician to gain political power or is it just as desperate a politician as President Akufo-Addo claimed was in 2016?

Listing a litany of stories about the comments of the former president of Free Senior High School, Asare Appiah stated that the principal investigator is convinced that “a person with such a level of indecision should not be trusted in anything he promises, since he does not believe in the SHS Free Program and wish it would be canceled. “

“In October 2012, then-President Mahama after the sudden disappearance of President Atta Mills said ‘Free SHS is false’ and the source is Daily Guide Network from Friday August 16, 2019, November 23, 2012, said Mahama to the folks at Okere that ‘Free SHS will collapse the SHS education system and the source is www.peacefmonline.com as of Friday 16 August 2019. Mr. Mahama, while addressing a meeting at Cape Coast University ( UCC), said ‘Free Senior High by the NPP is a political gimmick and the source again is www.peacefmonline.com from Friday August 16, 2019. Again, in response to the NPP’s idea of ​​soliciting funding from the public to keep sustainable The SHS Free policy, Mr. Mahama is on record having stated that Lalasulala Free SHS will fail. Source is Classfmonline.com as of Saturday 25 November 2017. Once again, Mr. Mahama addressed NDC delegates at Nsuta Kwaman Beposo in the Ashanti region while on a campaign tour to be re-elected flag bearer of the NDC suggested that part of the free SHS money should be invested in the productive sector to generate employment opportunities for graduates of the Free SHS program. The source is myjoyonline.com from November 20, 2018. February 24, 2018. Mr. Mahama said that the implementation of Free SHS was rushed and is restricting the government budget and therefore needs a review. My source is the Daily Guide Network for Friday, August 16, 2019. On October 1, 2018, Mr. Mahama repeated his dislike of Free SHS saying that it would undergo a review and hinted at the possibility of the policy being removed and my source is Daily Guide Network of Friday 16 August 2019. Mr. Mahama also hinted that there will be changes to Free SHS within the first 3 months of his next presidency and the source is GhanaWeb of Friday 12 April 2019).

Therefore, he pleaded with Ghanaians and eligible voters to “see through [Mahama’s] false and empty promises to continue with something that he has consistently opposed and not believe anything he says about Free SHS. “

WASSCE 2020 Results

Michael Asare Appiah boasted that an analysis of the WASSCE 2020 results shows that the percentage of candidates who achieved Tertiary Education Qualifications (TEQG), that is, from A1 to C6 in core subjects, was one of the best in the last five years. .

“The percentage of candidates who obtained TEQG in English increased from 53.19% in 2016 to 57.34% in 2020. The percentage of candidates who obtained TEQG in mathematics increased from 32.28% in 2016 to more than double the number which is approximately 66% in 2020. The percentage of candidates who obtained TEQG in Integrated Sciences increased from 48.48% in 2016 to 52.53% in 2020. The percentage of candidates who obtained TEQG in Social Studies increased from 54.50% in 2016 to 64.30% in 2020 ”.

He continued: “The analysis of the 2016 WASSCE results indicates that less than half of the 247,262 students who sat for the exam obtained the minimum qualifications to enter tertiary institutions, while half of the (approximately) 342, 500 who wrote the 2020 exam obtained the minimum qualifications to enter institutions of higher education. In 2016, upper secondary school students did not write the WASSCE under any extreme physical and psychological circumstances, and without the COVID-19 pandemic, but 2020 students wrote the exams under extreme physical and psychological conditions due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and yet it came out with great success. “

He noted that based on the implementation of the Free SHS flagship policy, the 2020 WASSCE results and other historical achievements in the past 4 years, it is correct that “HE Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President of the Republic of Ghana is given another 4-year term ”.