I brought Free SHS in 2015 – Mahama

Mahama said the NPP poorly implemented the Free SHS programme

I brought Free SHS in 2015 – Mahama
John Mahama

Former President John Dramani Mahama, says the Free Senior High School (Free-SHS) programme was launched by the NDC government in 2015.

According to the NDC's flagbearer, the Akufo-Addo led government poorly implemented the programme, which compelled them to adopt the double track system.

Due to this, Mahama said he will abolish the double track system when he is voted into power come December 7.

“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. I assure you my country men, that within one year, I will cancel the double track,” Mr Mahama stressed at Tuobong, a community in the Tempane District of the Upper East Region, as reported by the GNA.

Mr Mahama is on a three-day campaign tour of the Region to galvanise votes in the December 7 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

He said when voted back into government, “All the Community Day Schools we were building, 200 of them, we are going to finish them so that all the children can get schools to attend.

“With the Community Day Schools we are building, we are going to add dormitory blocks for girls and boys so that those who don’t come from the community where the school is sited, if they choose that school and they are posted there, they will be able to get a decent place to live and learn.”

On illegal mining popularly referred to as “galamsey,” Mr Mahama said “If we handle the issue of galamsey properly, we can create one million jobs for young people in this economy, and so NDC is going to come out with a new plan for small scale mining.”

He explained that the NDC would map out all Districts where gold mining took place, and in all those Districts, “We are going to establish what we call a Gold Board. We are going to take young people from the University of Mines and Technology who know how mining should be done.