Akufo-Addo’s Free SHS policy law plan a joke – Minority

The Minority has described as a joke plans by the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to enact a law to protect his government’s flagship programme, Free SHS.

President Akufo-Addo while addressing a graduation ceremony at the University of Development Studies (UDS), Tamale over the weekend hinted of plans by his administration to prevent a future review of the policy in the event that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) loses power in 2020.

“We are going to enact a legislation to make access to SHS compulsory for every school going child. This will ensure that those who have pledged in their dreams to ‘review the free SHS policy’ do not get the chance to destroy this policy in the very unlikely event that they return, the president said.

His comment appears to be a response to former president John Mahama who has promised to review the policy which has been fraught with challenges leading to the introduction of the Double Track system.