Mahama and NDC suffer from a baggage of contradictions, incoherence and confusion of thought – Baako

General news for Thursday, November 26, 2020

Source: Famous people named Ghana

2020-11-26

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper says John Dramani Mahama and the NDC face a “baggage of contradictions, incoherence, confusion of thought and lack of clarity” regarding the introduction of the free high school. . School (FSHS).

The NDC flag bearer on a three-day campaign tour of the Upper East region stated that his government launched the free SHS program in 2015.

Mahama told the Tuobong people in the Tempane district, “We started the program and the NPP came and continued it. Unfortunately, the implementation has been very poor, so we ended up on the double track. I assure you, my compatriots, that within a year I will cancel the double track ”.

He continued: “All the Community Day Schools that we were building, 200 of them, we are going to finish them so that all the children can get the schools to attend. With the Community Day Schools that we are building, we are going to add blocks of dormitories for girls and boys so that those who do not come from the community where the school is located, if they choose that school and are placed there, they can find a decent place to live. and learn “.

But Kweku Baako Jnr, speaking on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo morning show Wednesday, said that when the NPP began talking about the free SHS policy in 2008, the NDC and its allies said the policy was not really possible and was coming. of a desperate Nana. Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

He said the NDC even used a sermon by Pastor Mensa Otabil in which he told his congregation that there was nothing quality about the free stuff, just to discredit the PNP’s policy.

Baako indicated that attempts by the NDC and Mahama to back up their argument with some posts that UNESCO even praised Ghana for introducing the free SHS policy is false.

He claimed that the headline of that post and the content of the story are two completely different things.

Baako explained that at the time, John Dramani Mahama, then acting president, had told UNESCO that he was about to introduce the free SHS in Ghana.

Kweku Baako Jnr quoted Irina Bokova, the Director General of UNESCO at the time, verbatim: “I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on the increase in public spending on education over the last four years. This has brought about a significant increase in enrollment in early childhood and primary education. This has characterized the progress towards gender equality in education ”.

This, Baako explained, “did not directly focus on the promise of progressively free education,” which the NDC introduced in 2015 in the Eastern Region, when the Mahama administration paid students’ school fees for 400,000 days in full.

“As far as I’m concerned, if I’m analyzing the content of the story, the headline doesn’t fit the body of the story,” he added. “There is a distinction between what John Mahama did … In 2017, Akufo-Addo after accessing all the financial options, difficulties and challenges decided to implement it, both day students and borders were included, unlike the option Mahama who started with day students, [he] promised to add borders that he couldn’t … “