{"id":444480,"date":"2017-12-07T01:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/07\/free-shs-will-soon-swallow-all-incomes-generated-former-minister\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T01:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:30:30","slug":"free-shs-will-soon-swallow-all-incomes-generated-former-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/07\/free-shs-will-soon-swallow-all-incomes-generated-former-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Free SHS will soon swallow all incomes generated \u2013 Former Minister"},"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>peacefmonline.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\/41581853.295.jpg\" alt=\"Aquinas Quansah Minister\" title=\"Aquinas Quansah Minister\" width=\"295\" height=\"186\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Central Regional Minister, Aquinas Tawiah Quansah<\/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\/1512610230_43_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former National Democratic Congress [NDC] Central Regional Minister, Aquinas Tawiah Quansah has clearly stated that all incomes generated in Ghana will be geared towards only the Free SHS policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf care is not taken, all incomes generated in this country will be for no other motive than President Akufo-Addo\u2019s Free SHS initiative, leaving other developmental projects unattended to. This means no roads, clinics, police stations, schools e.t.c. will again be constructed,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He made these comments on Kasapa FM\u2019s \u2018Anopa Kasapa\u2019 political programme when discussions on the MP for Efutu, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin recent suggestion that the Akufo-Addo administration will soon introduce a new system of taxation to sustain its free SHS policy.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the specific tax is geared towards ensuring that there is quality education in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Ghanaians are paying tax to sustain free SHS, it won\u2019t be farfetched. It will help all of us. There\u2019s a difference between nuisance tax and specific tax for specific purpose that we all know that these are the benefits. Do you think Ghanaians will oppose a free SHS tax where we will set up an implementation Committee to oversee to the transparent disbursement of these funds?\u201d he asked<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see why government would now want to extract monies from us in an indirect way to fulfill its campaign promise, when he has the rights to make citizens know the actual state of our economy . . . \u201d Tawiah Quansah stated.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 3 updated by: -1 --><\/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: peacefmonline.com 2017-12-06 Former Central Regional Minister, Aquinas Tawiah Quansah Former National Democratic Congress [NDC] Central Regional Minister, Aquinas Tawiah Quansah has clearly stated that all incomes generated in Ghana will be geared towards only the Free SHS policy. \u201cIf care is not taken, all incomes generated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":444481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444480","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 - 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