The party said, it will offer a proper and effective Free Compulsory Basic Education (FCUBE) policy if voted to office in December.

According to the party’s Presidential candidate, Papa Kwesi Nduom, the PPP is the best political party to deliver effective educational policies.

Addressing some teacher associations at the GNAT Hall in Accra on Friday morning, Nduom said the governing NDC’s free education policy was a substandard version of what the country’s constitution stipulated.

He also accused the NDC of delaying the implementation of the FCUBE.

“We must not allow what has been happening and what has been perpetuated by the President John Dramani Mahama. We cannot allow that to continue. You can’t get the constitution which says this is what you must do and then you decide to do it in your own time but you have 8 years that you’ve been at the highest level of government, put all that aside and you [Mahama] still talk about progressively free, expanding access incrementally.”

“For me, free does not mean go and bring this or that. Nowadays they even sometimes, say go and bring your own chair, that is not part of free so that sought of policy must stop,” he said.

He said a PPP government will prioritize education

Dr. Nduom assured the teachers that a PPP government will prioritize education and implement effective policies that will promote the growth of the sector.

He also promised to make delays in the payment of salaries of teachers a thing of the past.

‘Government must invest more in education’

Dr Nduom earlier this year, while addressing students of the Catholic University College, called for more investment in the educational sector to enable the country achieve a higher literacy rate.

He argued that if such efforts are not adopted, the country will continue to suffer the challenges of underdevelopment.

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Dr. Nduom said “we have had to spend a lot of money on this court case with finding good lawyers, finding good advisors, finding researchers and so on. That comes at a cost so money that we could have used to go to the people to sell our message, we were using it there [court].”

The party sued the Electoral Commission at the Accra High Court for refusing Dr. Nduom’s candidature in the December general elections over some errors on Nduom’s nomination forms.

Meanwhile, the court last Friday ordered the EC to allow the party to amend the forms.

Planned activities were hampered

[contextly_sidebar id=”koBCd8m0AxR9AitsSRY922rgz0o3NXuN”]The flagbearer revealed this in an interview on The Big Issue on Saturday [October 29] that the party had spent a lot of money litigating the matter.

He complained that the court proceedings hampered a lot of planned campaign activities saying the sitution demands that they would have to work harder in order to canvass enough votes ahead of the December polls.

“We would have to go and work harder. I am on my way to Winneba, I have already been to Kasoa and Budumburam. We are doubling our efforts and this evening, we will end up in Elmina for a mini rally,” he added.

Court case won’t adversely affect our chances

Dr Nduom said he was hopeful the cost of the case to the party will not negatively affect the party’s chances in the forthcoming elections.

“We are working but it has definitely cost us time and certain things but we have hope. We started this thing on a good foot and we are doing well but we just have to go and pick it up [from there].. I now believe that this year, when the election is over, everybody will see that we have PPP members going into the next parliament.” he said.

He stressed that the PPP will work hard to ensure that Ghana does not become a two-party state.

 ‘PPP to begin correcting errors on presidential nomination forms’

Dr Nduom also hinted that they will consult their lawyers to confirm the specific errors that need to be corrected on his nomination forms as granted by an Accra High Court, to allow him contest in the upcoming presidential elections.

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