Screenshots of statements made by Nana Addo that shows it was Mahama who started Free SHS
There’s an ongoing battle between NPP’s President Nana Addo and NDC’s presidential candidate John Mahama as to who started the Free SHS policy. The policy as we have known today was one of the strongest campaign messages of the NPP party in 2016 and after winning power, they fulfilled their promises by implementing it. Well,…
There’s an ongoing battle between NPP’s President Nana Addo and NDC’s presidential candidate John Mahama as to who started the Free SHS policy.
The policy as we have known today was one of the strongest campaign messages of the NPP party in 2016 and after winning power, they fulfilled their promises by implementing it.
Well, Mahama has come out to say that NPP doesn’t deserve the hype and credit they’re enjoying pertaining to the Free SHS because according to him, NDC implemented the policy in 2015.
He said even though he was the one that started it, NPP who didn’t have a clue of how to run it implemented it poorly and that’s why they rushed to introduce double track system, “I assure you, my countrymen, that within one year, I will cancel the double track.”
“We started the programme and the NPP came and continued it. Unfortunately, the implementation has been very poor, and so it ended us in double track,” Mahama said.
Mahama’s comments warranted a reply from Nana Addo. The president in his reply said if he can remember carefully, it was Mahama who was against Free SHS so why is he coming out now to lie that he started it at the first place?
Watch the full details in the video below:
Meanwhile, there are proofs coming out that suggests that Nana Addo actually confirmed per a tweet he made on 9th December 2014 that it was Mahama who started the Free SHS in 2015.
In the tweet, Nana Addo wrote: “If president Mahama is, indeed, introducing free SHS in the 2015-2016 academic year, I would say alleluia”
See screenshot below:
Is this to confirm that Nana Addo actually knew that Mahama had plans to implement Free SHS?
As if that isn’t enough, there was a publication made by state-owned publishing company, Ghana News Agency, that says that NPP cleared GHC30.1million Free SHS debt under NDC.
So if indeed there was no Free SHS under NDC as NPP is making us believe now, what debt did they pay then?
Below is a screenshot of that publication dated 12th Aug. 2020 on Ghanaweb.com as sourced to the Ghana News agency.
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