The Vice Presidential Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang has advised the youth to desist from engaging in politics of insult and rather focus their energies on matters of nation-building.
According to Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, insult does not build a country.
“Insult doesn’t build a country; arrogance doesn’t lead a country anywhere. No country makes progress because their people know how to insult people, how to box people or how to run down people .countries progress on their focus, we talk about Singapore, Malaysia, how we started with them. Look at the issue. They had a long term plan. We had a 40-year plan what has happened to it”.
The Vice Presidential Candidate said this when addressing the Koforidua Technical University branch of Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the NDC as part of her five-day campaign tour of the Region.
She said the NDC has unparalleled and superior records in the education sector more than its opponents which must be used as a trump card to the campaign.
She cited that apart from the University of Ghana, University of Cape Coast, and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, almost all other Public Universities were established and upgraded by an NDC government.
She also said at the basic school level, the NDC eliminated the shift system by building more classrooms, expanded access in the second cycle, provided enough teaching and level materials.
Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang explained that the NDC upgraded Polytechnics to Technical Universities to bridge the gap between academia and Industry.
According to her, if the NDC were in power, the policy would have been reviewed to fine-tune it if required to ensure it does not deviate from its goal.
A former Deputy Education Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said the NDC will continue its vision to establish a public University in the newly created regions to ensure all sixteen regions in Ghana has access to Tertiary Education.
He said the University of Environment and Sustainable Development constructed by John Dramani Mahama in Somanya is one of its kind in Africa established specifically for green economy and climate change-related programs underpinned by the effect of climate change and its impact on the global economy.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
