The Member of Parliament for Damongo Constituency, Samuel A. Jinapor has averred that a vote for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the upcoming general elections will be a vote against the free SHS policy.
The Damongo lawmaker made this remark on Tamale-based Diamond FM on Monday, September 2, 2024.
According to him, the NDC and former president John Dramani Mahama never believed in the free senior high school policy and sponsored numerous adverts against it.
“These people have never ever believed in free senior high school. President Mahama has fought against it. They say they will review it and reviewing it essentially would mean canceling it”, he cautioned.
He debunked assertions that the erstwhile Mahama administration started the policy stressing that President Akufo Addo must be credited for the successful implementation of it.
“They never started anything, free senior high school was started by President Akufo Addo and I’m respectfully telling the people of Tamale, the people of Northern Region that if you vote for NDC, it will mean you are voting against free senior high school”.
This the Damongo legislature said will mean going back to the era of paying school fees again which wouldn’t ensure to the benefit of parents and therefore, urged the people of Ghana to vote massively for Dr. Bawumia to ensure the continuity of the policy.
“If you make the choice for Dr. Mahamuud Bawumia, it will mean free senior high school will be continued, it will be perfected, it will be enhanced, it will be improved but if you make a choice for former president Mahama, it will mean just as they did with National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) when president Kufour brought it”.
