A member of the NDC communications team, Felix Kwakye-Ofosu is asking Ghanaians not to buy into Nana Akufo-Addo’s manifesto promise to make education at the senior high school free, saying the policy is misleading and fraught with misdiagnosis. The much touted free SHS education has been seen as the mainstay of the NPP's flagbearer's policy, but Kwakye-Ofosu remarks that “Nana Addo’s policy is fraud”. Speaking on Joy FM’s news analysis programme, Newsfile Saturday, Kwakye-Ofosu claimed the NPP manifesto is only an afterthought. “This is a man who wants to build a three-storey building; he wants to build the second floor before he digs the ground to lay a foundation. If basic school education is not free, how do you tell me that you are making secondary school education free?” he quizzed. He said the NPP has made the free SHS sound as if everything about education hinges on high school education, describing as “unfounded” the perception that “once you make secondary school education free all your problems are solved”. He said the policy has not been deeply interrogated by “critical sessions” of the society, thus creating the impression for people to believe they are genuine. For the NDC, Kwakye-Ofosu explained, “Before you speak about making senior secondary school education free, you must be able to guarantee compulsory universal basic education for all Ghanaians. There are 5 million children in basic schools in Ghana as we speak, there are 720, 000 people in secondary school as we speak. So of the top of your head, if you have resources and you want to guarantee universal access to everybody where do you invest those resources?” He further stated: “President Mahama says to the extent that basic education has not been made completely free for which we cannot hold parents to account if they do not send their children to school. There is no point creating the impression that our biggest problem is senior high. The NPP clearly misunderstand that project. Nana Addo has done a misdiagnosis.” On his part, the NPP Member of Parliament for Manhyia, Matthew Owusu Prempeh believes the promise by President Mahama to establish 10 more teacher training schools for the 200 senior high school he intends building was misplaced. He explained: “The basic fact is that teachers in SSS are not from the training colleges. The training colleges bring out an output for the basic education.” According to Mr Opoku Prempeh, “so if the president at this time is so confused, and he is the leader, no wonder where we are going.” He further described the NDC government as not only incompetent but also corrupt as well.