Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Mahama says the only message his opponent, President Akufo-Addo has to defend to almost four years in government is the Free SHS policy.
According to him, the policy Akufo-Addo brags about, he is unable to implement effectively.
Speaking with Kwesi Pratt Jnr. at the Mariam Hotel, Tamale, the former President Mahama reiterated his promise to make the Free SHS better by working to eradicate the double-track system.
“We must work to take the double track way, its putting a lot of inconveniences on parents, children stay at home for as long as 3 months or more.
“When this happens a lot of parents who care about their children’s education have to get teachers to have extra studies, the intention of Free SHS was to take the burden of paying fees off parents," he said.
Mr Mahama stated that he found no reasoning in knowing that parents still had to pay indirect fees to classes teachers to fill the vacant time students spend at home.
He went on to describe the efforts of Akufo-Addo at 'zero work done'.
“If you claim to be taking the burden of paying fee off parents and yet because their children have to stay home for a prolonged period they need to find teachers to teach them, it ends up being the same cost 90."
According to the former president, what President Akufo-Addo could have done better was to make a few twigs on the NDC's Community Day School concept, something he says could have aided their efforts.
"Most of our secondary schools do not have enough space to accommodate the huge population.
"Each of our community day schools has the capacity to take 1,000 students and we completed 100 community day schools.
"So that would have been 100,000 students who could have been placed in the building to ease the congestion in existing schools, but rather he abandoned our buildings," he said.
Mr. Mahama reiterated the NDC government's promise to within one year will end the double track system and fast track the completion of uncompleted secondary schools to accommodate more students.
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