{"id":444208,"date":"2017-12-06T08:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T08:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/education-minister-must-be-mindful-of-his-public-utterances-ofosu-ampofo\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T08:11:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T08:11:06","slug":"education-minister-must-be-mindful-of-his-public-utterances-ofosu-ampofo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/education-minister-must-be-mindful-of-his-public-utterances-ofosu-ampofo\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Minister must be mindful of his public utterances &#8211; Ofosu Ampofo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday,  6 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/97020527.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ampofo 1\" title=\"Ampofo 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Director of Elections for NDC<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512547866_923_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The National Vice Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has advised the Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh to be mindful of his public utterances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will urge my brother Dr. Opoku Prempeh to mind his words. How can a whole minister say you can do the thing in a polythene bag\u201d, the former Eastern Regional Minister quizzed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a minister you have to be mindful of what you say because you are representing the President\u201d, Hon. Samuel Ofosu pointed out on Peace FM morning show hosted by Kwame Safa Kayi.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo gave this advice while discussing challenges concerning the implementation of the free Senior High School policy<\/p>\n<p>The Education Minister is reported to have asked senior high schools students to resort to the use polythene bags if they lack toilet facility in their schools.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh also challenged political critics to name secondary schools that are congested because of the free senior high school (SHS) education policy.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference, he insisted that there is no school that the Free SHS Secretariat placed more students than the heads admitted they can contain.<\/p>\n<p>The outspoken minister maintained that there is a record at the Secretariat detailing the number of first-year students sent to the various schools for those who doubt to crosscheck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a head tells Free SHS Secretariat that \u2018we can only admit 533\u2019 and it places 520 students, (but only) 517 enrolled, how then do we say that Free SHS has caused congestion in the school?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hSANHSHoq_k\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: 32 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 6 December 2017 Source: mynewsgh.com 2017-12-06 Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Director of Elections for NDC The National Vice Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has advised the Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh to be mindful of his public utterances. \u201cI will urge my brother Dr. Opoku [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":444209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Education Minister must be mindful of his public utterances - Ofosu Ampofo - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/06\/education-minister-must-be-mindful-of-his-public-utterances-ofosu-ampofo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Education Minister must be mindful of his public utterances - Ofosu Ampofo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Wednesday, 6 December 2017 Source: mynewsgh.com 2017-12-06 Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Director of Elections for NDC The National Vice Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has advised the Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh to be mindful of his public utterances. \u201cI will urge my brother Dr. Opoku [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/06\\\/education-minister-must-be-mindful-of-his-public-utterances-ofosu-ampofo\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/06\\\/education-minister-must-be-mindful-of-his-public-utterances-ofosu-ampofo\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Education Minister must be mindful of his public utterances &#8211; 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