Former President John Dramani Mahama has re-assured Ghanaians he is going to make one of the NPP flagship programme and Initiative Free Senior High School (FSHS)
The former President who is currently touring the Upper East Region, gave the assurance in the Zebilla Constituency where he met with delegates ahead of the upcoming Parliamentary primaries on May 13.
“The Free SHS is not working well, and when we give them ideas as to how to improve it”
Mr. Mahama further said, he has made efforts to advise the government on what to do to improve the FSHS programme but unfortunately, they are not listening.
“I advised them what to do and they don’t want to take it. I said, bring all the parents, students, teachers, and everybody together and let us think about how we can improve the Free SHS and then, they do propaganda with it and say, am going to come and abolish it.
“We are going to come and make Free SHS better. As soon as we come, we are going to tackle all the abandoned school projects so that we can increase capacity in secondary because, we want by the time we leave office, every secondary school child, all our children will go to school at the same time and then vacate and come home at the same time. We want our children to go school to spend two to three months in school, not go for 4 weeks and come because of some traffic light system”. He pointed
Speaking about School Feeding Programme, the former President gave an assurance that his next NDC government is going to improve the poor quality of food they currently give children at the Senior High School.
“We are going to improve the feeding for the secondary school students. They have adopted the centralized feeding system and is not working because there were times when the food does not arrive and so the children don’t have food to eat. In the past, we used to give money to the schools and they procured their own food. So, we are going to re-introduced that they can procure their own food and give the children better food than they are giving now. Go to the senior High School and see the kind of food the children are eating, is very poor and so we are coming to improve that. Mr. Mahama Stressed
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