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General news for Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Source: Peace FM
2020-11-24
Kwesi Pratt Jnr, editor-in-chief of Insight newspaper
Experienced journalist Kwesi Pratt Jnr says the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) should not think that its free education policy is its trump card in the December elections.
The NPP is optimistic about their free high school policy (SHS) that gave them victory during the general election on Monday, December 7.
The party believes that, with the successful implementation of the policy, its candidate, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will receive a second term.
But Mr. Pratt has asked the PNP not to pin their hopes on the free education policy.
He explained that free education is not the main incentive to influence Ghanaians’ votes in favor of a particular candidate.
Speaking on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’, he recounted events in Ghanaian history where political parties promised free education but did not translate into votes.
For him, winning an election has much to do with the electorate’s choice of a suitable candidate than with whom he introduced or implemented the free education program.
“It is the first political party that not only promised, but also showed how they were going to raise the money. The People’s Convention Party also made this policy in 2000 … but nobody voted for them. So, when did it? You look critically, it does not necessarily mean that you will be voted in because the pioneers were not even voted in. Since the 1950s, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah introduced free compulsory basic education; enrollment in secondary schools increased by roughly almost 1000 percent in the space of five years and so on, but he was even overthrown, “he said.
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