{"id":2343,"date":"2014-02-26T06:34:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T06:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2014-02-26T06:34:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T06:34:19","slug":"mahamas-address-didnt-conform-to-budget-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=2343","title":{"rendered":"Mahama\u2019s  address didn&#8217;t conform to budget &#8211; Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2344\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mensah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2344 \" alt=\"Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mensah-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mensah-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mensah.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Minority leader in Parliament, Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has criticized President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s 2014 State of Nation Address, saying the issues raised were not in conformity to what was captured in the 2014 budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were so many things that the president mentioned in his address that were not in the budget at all,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. \u00a0Mensah said the President\u2019s presentation on railways for instance, was not captured in the 2014 budget at all.<\/p>\n<p>But in a rebuttal, the Minister of Information and Media Relations, Hassan Ayariga stated that \u201conce the funding arrangements are completed, review of the budget is not out of the way given that it is a major commitment by the President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama in delivering the 2014 State of Nation address revealed government\u2019s intentions of implementing a free senior high school education policy in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>According to the President, \u201cThe Ministry of Education, following consultations with stakeholders has prepared a report on the roadmap for a progressive introduction of free secondary education in Ghana as required under the 1992 constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the President was going back to pick on the Minority\u2019s promise of the Free High School policy on Eyewitness News, Mr Ayariga stated that \u201c the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as a party never said the Free high school is not a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, he stated that \u201cthe debate about the Free SHS at that period had to do with feasibility of the policy, taking into consideration the finances of the country,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that the NDC had not reneged on its promise to deliver quality education to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople must not only have access to education but quality education. For education to be meaningful, quality and quantity of education must go hand in hand,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority leader in Parliament, Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has criticized President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s 2014 State of Nation Address, saying the issues raised were not in conformity to what was captured in the 2014 budget. \u201cThere were so many things that the president mentioned in his address that were not in the budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}