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New Patriotic Party (NPP)Member of Parliament for Upper Denkyira West, Benjamin Kofi Ayeh says the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) doubts about the viability of the free Senior High School policy because they lack vision.
According to him, the only priority of the Mills-led administration is to pay gargantuan judegment debts to its party cronies and not the development of the country.
"They (NDC)can't think big; don't have vision;they kill initiatives. These unfortunately are the people governing this nation".
Mr. Ben Ayeh was reacting to recent comments by Vice President John Dramani Mahama about the free SHS policy espoused by the NPP flag-bearer, Nana Akufo-Addo.
The Vice President while addressing the Tertiary Educational and Institutions Network (TEIN)- the students' wing of the NDC at the University of Ghana - said the free SHS policy of the NPP is not feasible.
He indicated that the NPP flag-bearer’s inability to provide the cost for the implementation of the policy on BBC's Hard Talk indicates that the policy is just a campaign talk.
In a rebuttal, Ben Ayeh on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Wednesday said "it is not the Vice President who would tell when and where we should make our policy statement - that NPP is a party of achievers and would not wait for sacks full of money to implement its flagship free SHS policy.
He added that the NPP has its priorities right and has aligned all the resources to hit the ground running by executing the policy when voted in power.
The NPP MP noted that it takes a firm and decisive leader like Nana Addo to come out with such a policy to nurture the future leaders of Ghana.
The Upper Denkyira MP said he found Vice President Mahama's position strange because he (Vice) in fact benefited from the same free education policy as a student from Northern Ghana.
He said the Mills-led administration has no moral right to demand figures from the NPP when it has not been able to implement its onetime premium of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
The NPP MP asked whether the one-time premium of NHIS was meant to deceive Ghanaians just to win power in 2008.
Mr Ben Ayeh said if President Mills considers the abysmal performance of his government as unprecedented, then there would no room for improvement hence must be booted out on December 7.
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