{"id":467967,"date":"2018-02-27T07:53:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T07:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/27\/free-shs-if-he-wishes-us-ill-it-will-rather-befall-him-napo-to-mahama\/"},"modified":"2018-02-27T07:53:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T07:53:08","slug":"free-shs-if-he-wishes-us-ill-it-will-rather-befall-him-napo-to-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/27\/free-shs-if-he-wishes-us-ill-it-will-rather-befall-him-napo-to-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Free SHS: &#8216;If he wishes us ill, it will rather befall him&#8217; &#8211; Napo to Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 27 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>peacefmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-27<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/86657497.295.jpg\" alt=\"Presmahama\" title=\"Presmahama\" width=\"295\" height=\"164\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former President John Mahama criticized the Free SHS policy describing it as a &#8216;rushed policy&#8217;<\/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\/2018\/02\/1519717988_750_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Minister of Education, Mathew Opoku-Prempeh has fired salvoes at former President John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>The former President on Saturday criticised the Akufo-Addo led government for implementing a broad Free Senior High School (SHS) policy in haste.<\/p>\n<p>He urged government to call for a stakeholders meeting to address challenges facing the Free SHS policy because it is stifling other developmental projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem this government is facing and it is in their own interest, is that, Free Senior High School is absorbing all the fiscal space they have and so almost every money you have, you are having to put it into Free Senior High School. So you can\u2019t pay District Assemblies Common Fund, you can\u2019t pay NHIS (National Health Insurance Scheme), you can\u2019t pay GETFund (Ghana Education Trust Fund), you can\u2019t pay other salaries and things because all your money is going into Free Senior High School,\u201d Mahama said this weekend, during the Unity Walk organised by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Somanya in the Eastern region.<\/p>\n<p>But interacting with Kwami Sefa-Kayi in an exclusive interview on Peace FM&#8217;s morning show \u2018Kokrokoo\u2019 Monday, the Education Minister sharply disagreed with the former President.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cif he wishes us bad, it will fall back on him\u2026what does he want us to call a stakeholders meeting for?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile in office, he never bought one text for any school. Ask him where his policy document or guideline for his progressive free SHS is?.\u2026there was nothing like that. You were not able to do it in your time and now that we have implemented it, you are complaining\u2026he should tell NDC members not to take their children to school to enjoy the free SHS because it is not good\u2026\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 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 Tuesday, 27 February 2018 Source: peacefmonline.com 2018-02-27 Former President John Mahama criticized the Free SHS policy describing it as a &#8216;rushed policy&#8217; Minister of Education, Mathew Opoku-Prempeh has fired salvoes at former President John Dramani Mahama. 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