Free SHS Beneficiaries Happily Mob Bawumia in Wa Expressing Their Profound Gratitude

NPP presidential candidate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia received massive love and reception from beneficiaries of Free SHS at Wechau in the Wa Central Constituency on Monday.

The Vice President is currently in the Upper West Region as part of his campaign tour and during a community engagement in Wechau, Free SHS beneficiaries showed up in their huge numbers to support him.

The beneficiaries comprising graduates and continuing students excitedly cheered Dr. Bawumia on as the latter exchanged pleasantries with them.

The Free SHS policy introduced by the Akufo-Addo government in 2017 is widely regarded as the biggest social intervention programme since Ghana's independence.

Following the introduction of the policy, access to secondary education has doubled with an increased enrollment from 800,000 to over 1.4 million across the country.

Also, prior to the policy, statistics showed that more girls ended their education at the JHS level while more boys enrolled in Senior High Schools due to poverty or their parents' inability to pay tuition fees.

But the Free SHS has eradicated this problem in toto, hence there is now gender parity in secondary school enrollment with both the number of girls and boys in school increasing.

Traditional rulers, parents and students who have benefitted from the policy has been openly expressing their profound gratitude to the government for the opportunities to Ghanaians who otherwise would have been out of school due to financial constraints or any other obstacles.Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/