Leader and Flagbearer of Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has said there is a certain tyranny in the Educational system in Ghana under Nana Akufo-Addo led administration and Teachers are quiet because they are afraid to lose the job.
The NDC leader claimed that If a head teacher opens his or her mouth and talk, the current government dismisses them without going through due process.
Mr. Mahama said this at a meeting with the leadership of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) as part of a series of engagements by the opposition NDC to gather ideas for the party’s 2020 manifesto dubbed ‘The People’s Manifesto’.
He added “We need to reform [the educational sector] to improve the outcomes that we get from the educations service, but in doing those reforms, you must carry everyone with you. Everybody is quiet because everyone is afraid to talk. And so the government is just going ahead implementing and bulldozing its way through. One question you ask yourself is what is the quality of those children that are going to come out” he questioned.
In October 2019, Mr. John Dramani Mahama said the NDC will continue to promote greater academic freedom in universities.
He said the government had no business interfering in the running of universities, noting that universities had their autonomous structures in place to deal with their administrative issues.
Speaking during a meeting with the national executive members of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), in Kumasi, he said the disturbances on the campuses of the University of Education, Winneba, and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) will never occur under his administration.
Source: Kofi Atakora
