{"id":1197220,"date":"2022-09-02T13:15:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/there-are-powerful-forces-in-society-against-free-shs-akufo-addo-2\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:15:41","slug":"there-are-powerful-forces-in-society-against-free-shs-akufo-addo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/there-are-powerful-forces-in-society-against-free-shs-akufo-addo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"There are powerful forces in society against Free SHS \u2013 Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1658159233_831_A35I9852-636x424-Copy-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Free SHS - Govt of Ghana as source\" title=\"Free SHS - Govt of Ghana as source\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free SHS &#8211; Govt of Ghana as source<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo says there are \u201cpowerful forces\u201d in society hoping for his government\u2019s flagship Free Senior High School (SHS) programme to fail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlready there are some who are eager to curtail some of the important initiatives such as the Free SHS policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are powerful forces in society who are against it and insist that education should be what parents can afford or contribute. But I have a different view. I think the benefits of it to the society and nation are obvious,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He said he is aware of such persons and will not allow their agenda to see the light of day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The President insisted that the Free SHS programme will survive all such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Policy has been facing some challenges recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of these challenges include a shortage of food at the various schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This has led to a wider conversation around it with many calling for a review.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though the President initially rejected such calls, while meeting with the National Executives of the National Union of Ghana Students on Wednesday, he expressed his readiness to engage in a discussion on the way forward with regards to the Free SHS policy.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation, according to him, must look at funding, availability of money, access and other ingredients that must work for the good of the Ghanaian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things people have been calling for is the review of Free SHS, I think we should have a broader conversation about the incidence of education on our national development,\u201d President Akufo-Addo said.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"OzHpQn1Lb5E\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NDC Elections: Tarkwa polling station execs warn against deployment of \u2018mafia tactics\u2019 (1-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OzHpQn1Lb5E?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free SHS &#8211; Govt of Ghana as source President Nana Akufo-Addo says there are \u201cpowerful forces\u201d in society hoping for his government\u2019s flagship Free Senior High School (SHS) programme to fail.\u00a0 \u201cAlready there are some who are eager to curtail some of the important initiatives such as the Free SHS policy.\u00a0 \u201cThere are powerful forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1149337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[648,7848,2756,7807,5480,4979],"class_list":["post-1197220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-akufoaddo","tag-forces","tag-free","tag-powerful","tag-shs","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197220","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=1197220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}