A Senior Law lecturer at the University of Ghana Law School,\u00a0Dr. Raymond Atuguba, has asked the Akufo-Addo government to pass a legislation making the Free Senior High School policy binding on future administrations.<\/p>\n
He has expressed fears that if such legislation is not passed, the policy may collapse as it could be abandoned by a different political party that assumes power.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”zYzETNjdNmgr5YvV0R76DqJb9A1uSBrm”]Dr. Atuguba was speaking at a constitution review conference at Dodowa today [Friday], on retooling the constitution from political to a developmental one.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s say that if NDC [National Democratic Congress] wins 2020 or 2024, you know they can cancel free SHS, you know that? What sense will that make? But right now without a binding national development plan, they can do that. With a binding national development plan, once you put in the plan that every government must work progressively towards free SHS, then no government can [scrap the policy].”<\/p>\n
“…and we even added that before a government do that, a citizen can go to the supreme court and stop them,” the lecturer added<\/p>\n
Dr. Atuguba is of the hope that a legislative instrument, through constitution review, will protect the Free SHS policy from political interference.<\/p>\n