Yaw Mensah Opoku, the deputy public relations officer for the education ministry, claims it is unfair how the government is being depicted in relation to the problems with the educational infrastructure in primary schools.
He claimed that the government was taking a number of steps to address issues that some elementary schools were having, such as those highlighted in the JoyNews series Ghana's Schools of Shame, which focused on the lack of adequate educational facilities in several parts of the nation.
Therefore, the spokesman claimed that it was inaccurate to claim that the Akufo-Addo administration had neglected fundamental schools.
On Sunday's episode of JoyNews' The Probe, he told presenter Emefa Apawu, "At the most fundamental level, you are not looking at one student at a desk." In essence, the only thing we do is provide multiple workstations.
"I'm providing you these numbers so you can see that what we're portraying as complete negligence at the most fundamental level is not the fact." I'm trying to convey it to you.
"From that perspective, we must comprehend that the government's supplies for elementary schools are a component of the steps it is taking to help us reach the goal or limit that we all aspire to."
And if we present a pessimistic image of the world in which we purposefully omit some of the interventions that the government is doing there, it becomes quite terrible, and the government may also claim that is disappointing.
Mr. Opoku highlighted a few of the initiatives the government is taking to encourage and promote fundamental education.
He revealed that, "as part of the efforts, the Ghana Education Service (GES), led by the government as the Director General himself traveled all the way from Accra to Senegal East, where the disaster occurred, to have firsthand information about that intervention that the government has made," had just been done on Friday.
In order to prevent a repeat of the tragedy, in which about eight pupils from the region drowned in the Volta Lake while traveling to school, the spokesperson said that he also traveled to the area to distribute life jackets to local elementary school students.
He emphasized that it would be more reasonable to ask the government to increase its efforts to solve the educational challenges in those institutions rather than accuse it of neglecting basic schools.
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