Former President John Mahama has ponted fingers at the Akufo Addo led government for the violence that has been associated with this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
He blamed the violence on the politicisation of the country’s educational system and President Akufo Addo’s bid to claim ownership of the students as ‘ Akufo Addo graduates’, together with false assurances given the students that they’ll be helped to pass the exams with pass questions.
Speaking at the Yaa Naa’s palace while introducing himself as the NDC candidate, Mahama said “when you politicize our education system this is what you will see, the candidates are not anyone’s candidates, they are our candidates.
He added, “When students completed under president Rawlings, they were not Rawlings candidates, when they completed under president Kufour, they were not Kufour’s candidates, when they completed under president Mills, they were not president Mills candidates, when they completed under Mahama, they were not Mahama’s candidates.”
Mr Mahama noted that a new Natioanl Democratic Congress (NDC) administration will ensure quality education and depoliticize the system. He promised to sustain the free senior high school policy but only improve its shortfalls.
“Free senior high school has come to stay, anybody who tells you that when I come to office I will cancel it tell that person he is a bloody liar,” he said.
Mahama added, “what the next NDC government will only do is to improve on it’s implementation. We will ensure that, we put up more infrastructure to accommodate all the students and abolish the double track system so that they can all go to school at the same time.”
Source: GhanaFeed.com