{"id":1150744,"date":"2022-07-16T17:17:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T17:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/16\/how-can-you-say-this-ghanaians-react-to-kofi-bentils-statement-about-free-shs\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T17:17:15","slug":"how-can-you-say-this-ghanaians-react-to-kofi-bentils-statement-about-free-shs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/16\/how-can-you-say-this-ghanaians-react-to-kofi-bentils-statement-about-free-shs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHow Can You Say This?\u201d Ghanaians React To Kofi Bentil\u2019s Statement About Free SHS."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has made a bold assertion which has got the attention of Ghanaians. Kofi Bentil is of the view that Ghana is in the <span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">situation where it is not necessary to guarantee free education for Ghanaian children, because this is something that is killing the education system in the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\"><span class=\"ql-cursor\">\ufeff<\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/a9150391e18d47e1aa2ef32cb53f4a9d\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(33, 37, 41);\">Speaking on\u00a0JoyNews\u2019 NewsFile, Mr. Bentil elaborated that even in foreign and developed countries, they do not run free SHS system. He added that, n<\/span><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">obody can make a good enough argument on why the government should pay for rich people and even ordinary people to go to boarding school. He clearly stated that, it does not make sense to pay for people to go to boarding school free.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"lCxm8Af0nI0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It is not prudent to pay for people to attend boarding school for free \u2013 Kofi Bentil\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lCxm8Af0nI0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p> <iframe><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, some Ghanaians are not in agreement with Kofi Bentil\u2019s assertion and think that is was not right for him to make such a statement. Though we are facing economic crisis at the moment, we all know the benefits and advantages free SHS has brought to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/c6898755e4464b83a6261b932ce48fd5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on Kofi Bentil\u2019s assertion? Do you agree or disagree with him? Kindly share your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Caesar (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/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\">\nBentil<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nIMANI Africa<br \/>\nJoyNews NewsFile<br \/>\nKofi Bentil<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has made a bold assertion which has got the attention of Ghanaians. Kofi Bentil is of the view that Ghana is in the situation where it is not necessary to guarantee free education for Ghanaian children, because this is something that is killing the education system in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1150745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20607,2756,834,1088,3957,5480,2126],"class_list":["post-1150744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-bentils","tag-free","tag-ghanaians","tag-kofi","tag-react","tag-shs","tag-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150744","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=1150744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}