Akufo-Addo is already doing what Mahama promises to do in the education sector

General news for Saturday, September 12, 2020

Source: My GH news

2020-09-12

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Bosomtwe constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has insisted that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is already doing what John Dramani Mahama promises to do in the education sector.

“What are they going to do to make the private SHS perform like the public schools? I think Mahama needed some information because what he promises is already being done by Nana Akufo-Addo. If that is why they are asking us to vote for the NDC then they should stop because what they are saying is already being done by Nana Akufo-Addo, “he said.

Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Deputy Minister of Education, said the government is more focused on expanding infrastructure in public schools because most private SHS students do not perform on their final exams.

He commented: “Most of these private SHS get students who could not access the government SHS because they did not do well at BECE. So in the end it is the poor who enroll their districts in the private SHS to pay large sums, but these schools are not helping the students do well in the WASSCE. “

“If these children were enrolled in government schools, they would gain access to the necessary resources and quality enrollment to be able to perform well on exams. So if this is the case, then who should go to private schools and who should be taken to public schools? ”He told Adu Gyamfi Marfo on Kingdom FM.

He concluded: “That is why Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has decided to expand the likes of Prempeh, Adisadel, Mfantsipim, Wesley Girls so that many students can have access to such schools. Not long ago, a student who comes from Chiraa in the Bono region was admitted to the Achimota school and the whole town was in a state of jubilation and that is what Nana Akufo-Addo wants our students to achieve ”.