{"id":379685,"date":"2017-12-03T16:37:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=379685"},"modified":"2017-12-03T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T16:37:55","slug":"issue-bond-support-free-shs-programme-casely-hayford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/issue-bond-support-free-shs-programme-casely-hayford\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue bond to support free SHS programme \u2013 Casely-Hayford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford has advised the Akufo-Addo government to issue a bond in a bid to support the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/02\/free-shs-needs-political-will-not-a-law-bawumia\/\"><strong>free Senior High School<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>programme.<\/p>\n<p>Making the suggestion on <strong>Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s news analysis programme, <strong>The Big Issue<\/strong> on Saturday, Mr. Casely-Hayford said, the bond will enable government solve the teething challenges that have bedeviled the programme since its implementation.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;ejXkzhAELcrlUhHg8AHkSTQzGsFqjzd1&#8243;]\u201cThis is fundamental. This is financing and accounting 101,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The programme has since its inception recorded some setbacks in terms of infrastructure, a problem government says is working hard to address.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the many other means of addressing the problem, the government announced the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/16\/free-shs-govt-to-set-up-voluntary-education-support-fund\/\"><strong>setting up of a fund<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>to receive voluntary contributions from individuals to support the implementation of its flagship free SHS programme, and the education sector as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>According to Casely-Hayford, the bond will create additional funding for the programme, apart from its \u201cmeager\u201d budgetary allocation drawn from Ghana\u2019s oil revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The financial analyst said, if he were to be government, \u201cWhat I will do is that, I will float a particular bond basically for developing education infrastructure and keep it completely separate from our annual budget funding amount which I will use to pay for my free SHS expenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will use that for infrastructural development. At the end of the day, who buys the bond? They are investors from outside and you and me. We will buy the bond and we will give enough capital and that money will be paid to us over a longer period of time,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a bond?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In finance, a bond is a fixed income investment in which an investor loans money to an entity (typically corporate or governmental) which borrows the funds for a defined period of time at a variable or fixed interest rate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford has advised the Akufo-Addo government to issue a bond in a bid to support the free Senior High School programme. 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