{"id":1123602,"date":"2022-06-15T22:48:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T22:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/ministry-of-education-denies-ghc38-million-free-shs-t-shirt\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T22:48:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T22:48:12","slug":"ministry-of-education-denies-ghc38-million-free-shs-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/ministry-of-education-denies-ghc38-million-free-shs-t-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry Of Education Denies GHC38 Million Free SHS T- Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(74, 74, 74);\">Mr Yaw Opoku Mensah, the Deputy Spokesperson for the Ministry of Education (MoE),\u00a0following the purported Free SHS T-shirt which cost GHC 38 million, has denied and branded the news as fake.<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/c6a22eefd030414fa133e6fd989007e8\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Wednesday, 15th June 2022, Mr. Opoku Mensah wrote;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The attention of the Education Ministry has been drawn to a false news publication by starrfm.com which suggests that the \u201cMinistry is distributing a branded Free SHS T-shirt worth GHC 38 million to students in Ghana.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/018334400c6547b6bd1b6256f0146b01\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This article isn&#8217;t just false but a gross grotesque of fact and reality and should be disregarded by the Ghanaian populace as such.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starfm.com announced that bulk printing of Free SHS branded T-shirts for distribution to about 1,274,412 students who are currently in schools across the country. <\/p>\n<p>Starfm.com added that the T-shirts are being procured by the Free Senior High School Secretariat at the office of the Presidency at a cost of Ghc38,232,360. The news has caused many reactions. <\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Currentworldnews (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nFree SHS<br \/>\nMinistry Of Education<br \/>\nMinistry of Education<br \/>\nOpoku Mensah<br \/>\nYaw Opoku Mensah<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Yaw Opoku Mensah, the Deputy Spokesperson for the Ministry of Education (MoE),\u00a0following the purported Free SHS T-shirt which cost GHC 38 million, has denied and branded the news as fake. In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Wednesday, 15th June 2022, Mr. Opoku Mensah wrote; &#8220;The attention of the Education Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1123605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[66,6153,2756,17793,290,459,335,5480],"class_list":["post-1123602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-denies","tag-education","tag-free","tag-ghc38","tag-million","tag-ministry","tag-shirt","tag-shs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}