A former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, has referred to an intensive evaluation of the monetary control arm of the unfastened Senior High School (SHS) coverage. He defined the unfastened SHS coverage as a formidable one and believes authorities did proper via way of means of enforcing it.

“The unfastened SHS coverage is a formidable one however the monetary control is what ought to be appeared at,” he stated on Accra's primarily based radio station, Oman FM. Expressing fear over incessant proceedings approximately the coverage, he indicated training is a street to outrun poverty. Using his past due to his dad as an example, Kwabena Agyepong discovered his dad become from a negative historical past and it become best with training, and help from the Methodist church that he have become a lawyer “and made me who I am today.”

Kwabena Agyepong posited that the significance of unfastened SHS can't be disputed in addition to its beneficiaries. With the unfastened SHS coverage having been carried out some years back, the previous Press Secretary beneath neath the Kufuor management argues the to be had facts ought to make it simpler for the authorities to forecast and offer good enough finances to run the coverage smoothly.

“This is easy mathematics we want to parent out. If we recognize the wide variety of folks that qualify free of charge SHS, we can more than one that via way of means of the quantity spent in step with pupil and make good enough provisions for them.

The maximum crucial element is that we must ensure we offer the price range for the coverage yearly regardless of what.” Reiterating training because the pleasant street to store anyone, he referred to as on authorities to rapidly installed area energetic measures to remedy the troubles affecting the unfastened SHS coverage.

The government via the Ministry of Education is stated to be owing meals providers to the track just about GHC 800 million. The authorities have launched two hundred million cedis for the clean strolling of its flagship programme, the Free Senior High School (SHS), an intervention that avoided faculties from shutting down. Part of the quantity will visit the National Food Buffer Stock (NAFCO) for the shopping of meal items, at the same time a few will visit the heads of SHSs to cater for perishables. The ultimate quantity covers a part of the final year’s arrears and different prices inclusive of uniforms, feeding for the boarding college students and one warm meal for day college students.

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