No place for hypocrisy on Free SHS – Bawumia

General News of Sunday, April 21, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-04-21

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President of Alhaji, said that there should be no room for hypocrisy about the implementation and beneficiaries of the policy of free of charge. Secondary education. In a letter to former President John Dramani Mahama, the vice president said that the government had no intention of ending this policy.

"I hear someone (former president Mahama) say that we spend so much on free SHS. Did you hear it? He said we spend so much, that we will not have money for other things. Have you heard that?

"You who said that free SHS was not possible. When you did not have a free SHS under the government, you could not pay teachers or nurse training allowance, you could not pay national health insurance, is it a free SHS that you has stopped?

"I come from the north. I have benefited from a free education. It's good for the northerners and for the Ghanaian people, "he said in the face of the buzz of vuvuzelas and the crowd's encouragement. Everyone should enjoy it, "he told the crowd at a mini-rally organized by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Obo, Kwahu, in the eastern region.

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The march had been preceded by a march that had immobilized the towns of Kwahu Ridge as thousands of party supporters flocked to the streets.

Alongside the Vice President and some of the party's great wigs, including Henry Nana Boakye, the youth organizer of the party; its national organizer, Mr. Sammy Awuku; Eastern Regional Minister Eric Kwakye Daffuor; the majority leader, Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and a host of other people, sustained dance music parading through the streets, while the vice president reacted to the applause of the hundreds of people who had descended into the street to see it. other officials.

Signs

The walk led Atiebie worshipers to Mpraeso, from Obomeng to Obo, where the rally took place.

They carried placards with messages such as "A village, a dam," "Jobs for which we got better results," "National identity cards, we have better results," "The system Digital addressing we delivered, "Taxes, we have better performance," and "Nurisng Training Allowance Restoration. "

The vice president said the freeze in public sector employment was over, with the government employing around 350,000 people.

In the past two years, the government had taken at least 40 steps to reduce the hardships of Ghanaians by cutting household electricity tariffs by 17.5 percent and 30 percent for industries, while doubling the price of electricity. amount of subsidy per capita. 100% public schools of GHc 10 to 10%.

Other policies and initiatives include the employment of 100,000 graduates under the NABCO program, the abolition of registration fees for postdoctoral medical students in Ghana, the 39, 50% increase from the District Assembly Common Fund to the disability community, to provide 50% of toll employment opportunities to the Expanded Poverty Alleviation Program (LEAP) with 150,000 people equipped with physical livelihoods, expanded the program of school canteens of 500 000 beneficiaries, reinstated allowances of teachers and trainees in nursing, reduce the tax on oil from 17.5 to 15%, removing in particular the levy to 1% import.

He added that the government was implementing the One District, One Factory, which had so far seen the completion of 60 factories in addition to the implementation of the One Village, One Dam in five northern regions.

In addition, he said the government had prevented 1.5 million depositors from losing their funds in the country's banking crisis while reducing import duties, which placed a burden on the world of credit. business.

When Mr. Sammy Awuku took his turn, he gathered "tsooboi" and songs from "Kukrudu" before launching attacks on the administration of former President Mahama, who he said were trustworthy.

He said the return of the former president would be a nightmare for Ghanaians.

He cited the taxation of cutlbades and condoms by the Mahama administration as an example of the lack of sympathy of the last administrations vis-à-vis ordinary Ghanaians.