NDC only said it would be difficult to implement and never against – Spio-Garbrah

General news for Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2020-12-02

A former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, under the former Mahama administration, has posited that the NDC was never against Free SHS as suggested by members of the nuclear central government.

According to him, the opposition Democratic National Congress only said that it would be difficult to implement the policy.

He said: “We have not labeled SHS as something that is not desirable. We just said it would be difficult to implement. The PNP had a good policy, a difficult implementation.

“In an interview on Face to Face on Citi TV, he said that what the NPP is currently implementing is not a reflection of what they said in their campaign promise in 2016.

“Most of the parents thought they would implement it all at once during the first year. But they couldn’t do all of them. They did it one year at a time. So that was not a reflection of what they said. They even had to implement the double track system. Just to implement the policy.

“There is nothing wrong with it. But they could have been a bit frank with us that this is how they will implement it,” he added.

He reiterated that Free SHS was started by the Mahama-led administration.

“It is always a good idea to make education the best possible and progressive. So, as Vice Minister of Education, I saw the implementation of the FCUBE program, which was available to all children. Mahama started a free education program. The only thing is that he was not qualified as such during his time, ”added Mr. Spio-Garbrah.