President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
I stand with KUMACA in this trying moment, May the departed souls Rest In Peace
NPP in their 2016 manifesto promised heaven and earth about Education in the country.
[ads1]They undermined the efforts Mahama’s administration was putting up to make Education quality and accessible to all who are willing go to school.
Knowing very well that you don’t lay a bed before proposing to a woman, Mahama decided to improve infrastructure across the length and breadth of the country before scaling out the second part which is the free, compulsory and quality Education for all.
Because the NDC doesn’t just read like the elephants claim they do, but took their time to read, understand and realized that going all out with the current infrastructure deficit will lead us into the current situation we find ourselves.
So we decided to improve infrastructure in all the existing Senior High schools and also embarked on ambitious E-Block projects all over the country which the NPP called “Photoshop”
Even aside from these massive infrastructural projects by the erstwhile NDC administration, they decided to introduce the progressively free SHS to help those who can’t afford to pay their fees as well as drastically reduced the burden of fees paid on the parents.
After losing power to the Elephants in 2016, they discontinued the infrastructure projects ongoing in the various Senior High Schools and decided without thinking through, to roll out their free SHS program which from day one has been a challenge and a national security issue to all in the country.
When the challenges started and we tried to draw their attention to them, they called us Pharisees who don’t have Ghana at heart and even sacked headmasters who complained about the challenges and the ordeals the students are going through.
It went on till the sanitation court ordered for some schools to be closed down in the country because of how congested they are and the complete break down of sanitation policies in those schools.
The congestion of the schools became an issue when students were packed in dormitories and classrooms like sardines. A situation our political leaders will never allow their children to go through.
When the headmasters complained they were told by the minister the students should sleep on the veranda and ease themselves into black polythene bags and find a place to drop them.
Unfortunately for us today six of our children passed on to glory in Kumasi Academy with almost 30 also hospitalized over suspected CSM as the cause due to the overcrowded nature of all our Senior High schools all over the country.
The crime of these innocent souls committed was to get Educated just as our leaders and nothing else.
What have our young one’s done to deserve this from our politicians?
Is this Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana? Is this the Ghana Rawlings, Kuffour, Prof Mills and JM left for us?
Ghana really needs a revolution, and I humbly call on NUGS to rise and defend our students who are dying in the hands of our politicians because of their politically infested policies they have introduced.
What we need from government is our right to Education, not the right to die.
The government need to rise and address the numerous challenges confronting our schools instead of its praise singing appointees sitting in their offices and insulting those who criticize their policies.
I Stand with KUMACA I stand with Ghanaian Students
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Efo Worlanyo TSEKPO.
