Professor Stephen Adei, a former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has demanded a review of some of the government’s signature initiatives.
He cited the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) and Agenda 111 initiatives as examples of projects that may be evaluated in light of the nation’s and the government’s own financial challenges.
Speaking in an interview with TV3’s Paa Kwesi Asare on Monday, October 31, he said “we have to review some of the flagship projects, for example, should we do all the agenda 111 when you are under a serious crisis? I think that there must be a dispassionate review.
“Even calling on parents to say that, look, Free SHS, you have free books, free this and, but people must pay for their Children’s food at this moment. Why? Because only half of them are benefiting from the food. So why is this discriminatory.”
The success of access and the improvement in results attributed to the Free SHS program, according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, make him hesitant to undertake a review.
During his recent tour of the Eastern Region, the President was answering inquiries on a local Nkawkaw radio station.
“I have to confess my attitude because when I hear the word ‘review’ I hesitate. Because the first people who are calling for the policy review opposed the policy. If those who didn’t want it are now calling for a review, then my understanding is that they want to review to reverse the policy,” he stated.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
