Former president and flagbearer candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has promised to repair Akufo-Addo’s disastrous Free SHS policy and the National Health Insurance Scheme.
He claimed that revising the two laws would improve the policies and improve the lives of a lot of Ghanaians.
Mr Mahama claims that the difficulties in implementing the Free SHS have had a negative impact on the standard of instruction in many senior high schools, necessitating a reconsideration of the program.
John Mahama promised to end the problems with the free SHS and the NHIS while on a campaign stop at Kongo, in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region.
“Free SHS is not working properly, the benefit it is supposed to give the parents, they are not getting. I can tell you today that the money we spend on our children to go to school is far more than when we used to pay school fees”.
“We are going to repair the free SHS and make it better and create the situation when where school reopens, all the children will go together and when they vacate they all come home together.”
The former President reiterated his call for the Health Minister to resign over the collapse of the NHIS.
“The NHIL is completely destroyed, the Minister himself said there is no benefit to the NHIL card and that when he goes to the hospital he pays cash and that was why I said he should resign…and so NDC is coming to make it better.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
