National Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi compared the achievements of John Dramani Mahama’s administration in the educational sector to those of Akufo-Addo’s administration.
Gyamfi emphasised that while Mahama’s government focused on crucial educational needs like providing laptops, textbooks, and eliminating schools under trees, the current administration’s priorities are misplaced.
He criticized the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for distributing tablets while essential resources like capitation grants, textbooks, and chairs remain lacking, pointing out disparities in education access and quality.
Gyamfi’s remarks underscore the ongoing debate over educational policies and resource allocation in Ghana.
He urged Koku Anyidoho to stop spreading falsehoods and have a retentive memory of Mahama’s accomplishments.
“Somebody should tell @KokuAnyidoho that, at the time, the NDC/Mahama government was providing laptops for students, we were not owing six(6) terms of capitation grant; we had provided basic education students all their core textbooks and we had eliminated more than 2000 schools under trees. We had provided basic school children with free uniforms and sandals. Also, we did not have more than two (2) million children in school without chairs and desks.
At a time when the incumbent NPP government has failed to provide text books to basic school children almost 5 years after the introduction of a new curriculum, government cannot expect praises for the provision of tablets to students at an inflated unit cost of GHS3,200,” Sammy Gyamfi stated in a tweet.
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Somebody should tell @KokuAnyidoho that, at the time, the NDC/Mahama government was providing laptops for students, we were not owing six(6) terms of capitation grant; we had provided basic education students all their core textbooks and we had eliminated more than 2000 schools…
— Sammy Gyamfi (@SammyGyamfi_) April 7, 2024
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