NDC lacks ability to manage education sector, says Napo
The vice-presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, also known as ‘Napo,’ has strongly called out the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), claiming they cannot effectively manage the education sector in Ghana.
Addressing a gathering of chiefs and imams at Afrancho in the Afigya Kwabre South Constituency,on Friday (4 October) the former education minister lamented that the NDC failed to bring about the necessary transformation in educational infrastructure during their eight years in power.
“The E-Block was the NDC flagship policy at the time, but despite the noise that they made about the E-Block, they shockingly failed woefully to deliver on their promises. After eight years in political office, the NDC only delivered a paltry 28 E-Blocks, but they used propaganda, as usual, to bloat the figure”.
“Under the NPP government, academic work and infrastructure in the various schools have improved significantly due to good governance,” he observed.
Touching on some of the NPPs’ achievements in the education sector, he said the NPP implemented the famous free Senior High School (SHS) policy, which has improved enrollment in schools.
According to him, through the free SHS policy, pupils from poor backgrounds who could have become dropouts are now in school, pursuing their academic goals.
Napo also said the government, through GETFund, has, since 2017 to date, successfully completed a whopping 3,001 Legacy and New Projects.
Given the breakdown, he said the Legacy projects are totaled 1,827 and it comprises of 1,007 projects in basic schools, 662 in Senior High Schools (SHS), 16 E-Blocks, and 142 in the tertiary sector.
On the New Projects, Napo said it’s totaled 1,174 projects, which includes 554 in basic schools, 605 in SHS, 11 in tertiary, 2 TVET Centers, and 2 model schools.
Still under GETFund, he said 9 model schools, including Creative Arts School (first in Ghana), 5 model Science based schools, 1 model technical school, and others are under construction.
The government, through GETFund, he also announced, from 2019 to 2021, distributed 2,718 vehicles to the various agencies and institutions under the Ministry of Education.
According to him, GETFund also supplied 1,500 motorbikes to the various agencies and institutions under the Ministry of Education between 2019-2020.
Still on the NPP’s achievements, he said a staggering 677,470 furniture items have been distributed to basic and secondary schools between 2019-2021 through GETFund.
Under the ‘One Teacher, One Laptop’ policy, he said the government, through GETFund, has distributed 350,000 laptops to Ghanaian teachers so far, aiming at helping to improve teaching and learning in schools.
Without mincing words, Napo stated that if Ghanaians want the education sector to continue to progress, then they should vote massively for Dr. Bawumia as president.