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Aspiring Member of Parliament for Kintampo North, Joseph Kwabena Bomfeh, has said that Nana Addo's vision to make secondary education free was attainable and that it would only take a leader who believed in the capacity of Ghana to achieve it.
His comments follow criticisms by some doubting thomases who see Nana's initiative as overly ambitious.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Addo Adankwa Akufo-Addo has recently come under heavy scrutiny after he was unable to state how much his free SHS promise was going to cost the nation during an interview on the BBC's HARDTALK. He immediately told Ghanaians the policy will cost about $150million for the first year and a $400million for the next four years.
But policy think tank, Imani-Ghana, has labeled the project as unrealistic and demanded the NPP to clearly explain how it intended to fund it and to state which aspect of the economy it intended to sacrifice in order to achieve that.
But Mr Kwabena Bomfeh who believed the free secondary education vision was an attainable goal, said "We [the nation] can do it, we must do it, it is necessary and it is going to profitable to us."
He was speaking on Peace FM's current affairs programme Kokrokoo on Monday.
The aspiring MP - well known as Kabila - explained that there had been instances in the past where majority of Ghanaians had doubted of the feasibility of enrolling many key projects but that the products had benefited the whole country when its champions stood their grounds and carried them out.
Any president who doubted the possibility of having free secondary education in Ghana, he said, "was not committed to doing it and did not believe in the capacity of the nation".
To the critics, Kabila quoted former American president Theodore Roosevelt saying: "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points where the strong stumbled, nor where the doer of deeds could have done better."
"The credit belongs to the man who is in the centre of the arena, who struggles and toils and strives valiantly so that in the end when he achieves success it is accredited to him."
"At worst if he fails, he fails while daring greatly so that his soul is not buried with those timid and cold souls who know no difference between failure and success."
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