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Spokesperson for opposition New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) vice presidential candidate, has described as petty the ruling party’s criticisms of the proposed free senior high school (SHS) policy by Nana Akufo-Addo.
Yaw Boaben Asamoa said the conduct of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) depicts its lack of vision and ideas to accelerate the country’s development.
“Nana Addo says this is Ghana’s time of possibilities and nothing like impossibility should stop us” he stressed.
Yaw Boaben Asamoa was speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Tuesday.
Leading members of the NDC have persistently doubted the plausibility of the policy even after Nana Akufo-Addo had provided figures to back his flagship education policy when he took his turn at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)organized presidential Evening Encounter fortnight ago.
The NDC argued that the challenge of Ghana's education system is not about affordability, but accessibility and thus the free SHS policy is not feasible.
But Mr. Boaben Asamoa insisted that such a "laudable" initiative requires an ambitious man like Nana Addo who is committed to making education accessibly to the poor to enable them take up leadership mantle of the country in future.
Mr. possible [Nana] is in a party which makes things possible so he is going to make free education possible,” he asserted.
Mr. Boaben Asamoa said that the NDC's penchant to oppose every socially centered policy initiative by the NPP betrays claims that they are a social democratic party.
“NDC has made it a professional occupation to use the word impossible. Any time we [NPP]want to do anything thing new and good for the people of the country, they oppose it and yet they claim to be social democrats” Asamoa bemoaned.
He recalled that the NDC mocked the NPP when it proposed the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2008 and yet he says the erstwhile Kufuor administration shocked them [NDC] when it was successfully introduced.
Boaben Asamoa noted that attempts by the NDC to discredit the free SHS policy ahead of the December polls has failed because, according to him, Ghanaians believe in the NPP’s track record - as a party that keeps to its promises.
He urged the electorate to ignore the "lies and vile propaganda" of the Mahama/Amissah-Arthur administration and rally behind Nana Addo and the NPP for a resounding victory in December.
"People of Ghana, we are putting before you Mr. possible and a government with a track record. We do things because we belief in Ghana”.
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