President Nana Akufo-Addo at St. Mary\u2019s SHS in Accra on Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\nBeneficiaries of the Free Senior High School (Free
\nSHS) policy have promised to make President Akufo-Addo proud with a sterling
\nperformance in their final examinations.<\/p>\n
During a visit to St. Mary\u2019s Senior High School
\nin the Ablekuma South Constituency in Accra to inspect projects as part of the
\nPresident\u2019s tour of the Greater Accra Region, the Headmistress of the school,
\nGrace Mensah Eshun, told the President that \u201ca promise from the students to you
\nis that they will work very hard to make you proud; they are grateful to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut for the Free SHS policy many of them would
\nnot have had access to senior high school education,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
She later appealed to the President to help put
\nup a new fence wall for the school to replace the current one which she said
\nwas not only short but also weak.<\/p>\n
The headmistress asked for the storm drain in
\nthe school to be covered and also appealed for a big bus to convey the students
\nto programmes.<\/p>\n
President Akufo-Addo promised to deliver all
\nthree requests to the school in the coming months to serve as motivation for
\nthe students, management and staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cMadam Headmistress, rest assured the stronger
\nfence wall, the covering of the storm drain and the bus are all going to be
\nhere within the next two or three months ahead of us,\u201d he promised.<\/p>\n
He threw an open challenge to SHS students,
\nespecially the first batch of beneficiaries, who would be taking their final
\nexams between May and June next year to work hard and pass well to silence
\ndetractors of the Free SHS policy, some of whom he said were waiting for the
\nNPP government to fail so they could make mockery of the policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not everyone in this country that is
\nhappy about this Free SHS policy that the NPP government and I are pursuing. There
\nare political forces in our country that are strongly opposed to the policy.
\nThey began by saying that it was a gimmick. They then said that it could not be
\ndone for another 20 years. They then said it was too expensive and now they are
\ntelling us that when they come back to power, only God knows when, they are
\ngoing to review it. The word review means cancel,\u201d the President fired.<\/p>\n
He was optimistic that \u201cthe people of Ghana are
\nnot going to stand by and watch these people come back to power to destroy the
\nFree SHS policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I am hoping for and I am sure you will fulfil
\nis that in the exams that you are going to do in May and June next year,
\nconduct yourself in such a way that everybody will see that indeed the Free SHS
\npolicy is a positive policy for the country and shame all the detractors and
\nthose who did not want it to happen,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n
From St. Mary\u2019s, the President went for a brief inspection of ongoing works on the construction of storm drains at Odawna, near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, and proceeded to cut the sod for the construction of a model Science-based Senior High School, near the Weija Water Treatment Plant. <\/p>\n
By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Nana Akufo-Addo at St. Mary\u2019s SHS in Accra on Tuesday Beneficiaries of the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy have promised to make President Akufo-Addo proud with a sterling performance in their final examinations. During a visit to St. Mary\u2019s Senior High School in the Ablekuma South Constituency in Accra to inspect projects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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