The New Patriotic Party’s running mate Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has pointed out what he calls the failures of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the education sector.

He pointed out that the education sector, which is the future of the country, did not experience any meaningful transformation when the NDC stayed in power, and thus urged the electorates to reject the NDC on December 7.

Dr Prempeh, a former Minister of Education under whose tenure the NPP government implemented the much-talked-about Free Senior High Scholl policy, warned that the massive gains that have been achieved in the education sector under the NPP would be eroded if the NDC wins power.

“The future of the country is education and the record of NDC in education is poor”. Dr Prempeh, also known as ‘Napo’ reminded Ghanaians that the NDC posed a serious threat to the education sector.

Speaking at the Fosu Nursing Training College as part of his campaign tour in the Central Region on Friday, Napo urged the electorates to renew the NPP’s mandate in the interest of the country and the children, who are the future leaders.

Reminding the citizenry of some decisions that the NDC made in government to hurt the education sector, he said “It is the NDC who cancelled the teacher and nursing trainee allowance, with its disastrous effects on affected students”.

Highlighting what he calls the NDC’s flaws that hurt the education sector, Napo also said “I won’t give you chalk episode” adding that failure rates in schools also soared under the NDC.

The NPP running mate claimed that “over 40,000 school children could not get their results as a result of non-payment of school fees” when NDC was in power.

Napo said time would not permit him to talk about other insensitive things that the NDC did in political office in eight years to jeopardize the education sector, warning that the NDC should not be allowed to get close to power again.

He reminded the people that the education sector has been rapidly and properly transformed since the President Nana Akufo-Addo-Bawumia NPP government took over political power through better policies and planning.

Napo, who supervised the implementation of the famous free Senior High School (SHS) policy as Minister of Education, said “The free SHS alone increased enrollment and benefitted every student”.

The Free SHS social intervention policy, he explained, doesn’t discriminate against anyone, saying that every school-going Ghanaian child has been benefiting from the policy irrespective of their political, tribal or social backgrounds.

Napo also said there has been “an increase in the enrollment of nursing and teacher trainees despite the payment of their allowance”, saying that the future of the country is education and the NPP are the better managers of that crucial sector that should retain power.