Deputy Minister of Information Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has rubbished claims that the double track system implemented for senior high school students was out of rush, insisting it was a leapfrogging concept.
Speaking with Kwabena Prah on Accra FM’s ‘Ghana Yensom Show’ on Wednesday, Mr Adutwum said the double-track system “is a leapfrogging concept, so, instead of taking 50 years to put up school infrastructure to accommodate the influx of students, we’re using that to circumnavigate the infrastructure hurdles”.
“We can’t wait for 126 years” before doing so, he noted.
He noted that claims that it was a rush are inaccurate stressing that “If our generation wants to transform this country, we need to rush but with a mindset of not forgetting about quality. So, you don’t just rush but look for leapfrogging strategies.”
He further noted that the country’s peers like South Korea who Ghana used to be richer than are now manufacturing planes and giving us loans. Therefore there was a need to strategize and catch up with the advanced world.
He stated, “we’re in a hurry because time has run out on us.”
“Ghana’s peers, in terms of nationhood and independence, are now into manufacturing aeroplanes and other things but the painful thing is that they are not any smarter than us except that they have the mindset that everything is possible”, he pointed out.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
