I Won't Reverse Free SHS - President Akufo-Addo | Education

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has made it clear that he is not going to below any circumstances reverse the free senior excessive school(SHS) coverage.
He mentioned these advocating a overview have been those that initially opposed it.

He defined that to one of the best of his data, reviewing it meant reversing the coverage.

The President disclosed this in an interview with the Nkawkaw-based Republic Radio 97.5 FM within the Kwahu West Municipality within the Eastern Region final Friday to start his three-day tour of the area.

According to Nana Akufo-Addo, reviewing the free SHS coverage would deny numerous potential college students of poor parentage in addition to compromise the standard and entry of this system.

Quality and entry He mentioned the implementation of the free SHS had caused vital enchancment in secondary training and that any try to overview it will undermine the entry and high quality of the coverage.

Nana Akufo-Addo added that areas of research that had witnessed vital enchancment have been Mathematics, Integrated Science, English and Social Studies.

Quality training

Apart from that, he indicated that the coverage had helped many potential college students to entry high quality training.

Reviewing the coverage, Nana Akufo-Addo acknowledged, meant compromising it.

poor parenting

"The first people who opposed the free SHS policy are the same people calling for a review but on the whole the policy has improved secondary education and made it possible for students of poor parentage to access the quality and free SHS programme".

"I cannot accept the idea of ​​reviewing the free SHS programs since that will deny more Ghanaians from accessing the programme", President Akufo-Addo acknowledged.

He mentioned though the pastors had good intentions in regards to the coverage, he was not towards what they have been calling for however he wish to know particularly the areas of the free SHS coverage they (the pastors) would wish to be reviewed.

Statistics on Illegal mining

On unlawful mining, President Akufo-Addo indicated that any Ghanaian apprehended for participating in such actions can be jailed for 15 years to function a deterrent to others.

Later, the President inspected quite a lot of initiatives within the space.

Projects inspected

They have been the rehabilitation of the 35.50-km Nkawkaw - Noyem - New Abirem Road, the 33.20-km New Abirem-Ofoase Kuma Road; upgrading of three.0-km Akoase Town Roads, Agenda 111 Ofoase Ayirebi initiatives at Akyem Asuboa and Asene Manso Akroso, Densu Ceramics (One-District One-Factory) at Boadua Akwatia and a brand new astro turf at Ofoase.

The President additionally paid a courtesy name on the Chief of Ofoase, Obrempong Dubin Nti II.

He was extremely elated in regards to the President's go to and counseled him for offering Ofoase with a brand new astro turf.

He mentioned below the Akufo-Addo administration, the world had witnessed unprecedented infrastructural improvement reminiscent of school rooms and good roads.

Obrempong Nti, subsequently, appealed to the President to assemble a normal stadium for the world.