Founder of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has stated his support for the enforcement of the compulsory aspect of Ghana’s education policy, because it is the key to ensuring that every Ghanaian child is enrolled in school.

He has therefore challenged incumbent President John Dramani Mahama and the Flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, to also make their position on the matter known.

“I support compulsory education as a means to give opportunity for every Ghanaian child to reach their human potential and live a good quality of life. I will be happy if John Dramani Mahama and Nana Akufo-Addo and other presidential candidates will also support compulsory education,” he added.

Despite the formulation of the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) policy several years ago to ensure that every child is given equal access to education, successive governments in the second Republic have failed to implement it.

Dr. Nduom and his PPP have been major campaigners for the implementation of the FCUBE for some time now.

In 2014, the party filed a writ to the Supreme Court in a bid to compel government to enforce aspects of the policy, however, the case was dismissed. But the seven member panel of judges who sat on the case did not assign any reason for their decision.

In his recent post on Facebook, Dr. Nduom argued that compulsory education is the key to empower the citizenry and not free education or expanding access to educational facilities.

He noted that enforcing the policy is a sure way of making the “nation strong and its people prosperous.”

“Talking ‘expanding access’ or ‘free SHS’ won’t do. Our 1992 Constitution supports compulsory education and that is in good order. We must all support it and push for its full implementation so that every child can read, write, count and reason for themselves. It will be a great way to make our nation strong and its people prosperous,” he added.