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The Ghana National Association of Teachers has implored government to temporarily shelve its plans to implement its progressively free secondary education<\/strong><\/a><\/span> this year.<\/p>\n

The association argues that it will be difficult to sustain the programme under the current economic conditions.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”ptvpcoelLtCUyZspXMAof54dlxGqP6Cr”]They cited government\u2019s inability to honour certain statutory payments as example of what they say is the bad economic conditions in the country.<\/p>\n

President John Mahama in his State of the Nation Address<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0said that government will begin the implementation of the progressively free secondary education programme in the 2015\/2016 academic year.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Citi News<\/strong> the Deputy General Secretary of GNAT Yaw Baafi appealed to government to suspend the programme till economic conditions improve.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in a very serious economic situation now and a lot of statutory payments are in arrears. We are not even paying teachers their legitimate entitlements. So if we are bringing in all this it is just going to swell the expenditure of government,\u201d he cautioned.<\/p>\n

While admitting that the idea of a progressively free secondary education is good, Yaw Baafi argued that the timing of the project was wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo though the idea is good we think that this is not the appropriate time. If government could wait for things to improve a bit then it could be implemented. It is a good idea but without the resources it is going to be difficult. If things must be done it must be done well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The President noted in the State of the Nation Address that\u00a0367,000 day students will benefit from government’s free progressive senior high school education from Sept 2015.<\/p>\n

\"Samuel<\/a>
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First phase of Free SHS to cost GHS42 million<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Deputy Minister in charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is confident\u00a0government will sustain<\/strong><\/span><\/a> its free Senior High School (SHS) programme.<\/p>\n

Critics of government\u2019s move have cited how government is struggling to manage the School Feeding Programme, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and other social interventions.<\/p>\n

In an earlier interview with Citi News<\/strong> however,\u00a0Okudzeto Ablakwa said government has over the years demonstrated that even though it faces challenges in managing such programmes, the programmes are usually sustained.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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