The Founder and Leader of All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, claims the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme will produce dangerous graduates and professionals for Ghana.
According to him, under the Free SHS programme, all students irrespective of their performances, are promoted.
He argues that if such a practice of mass promotion of students, including the poorly performing ones is not checked, Ghana would end up producing doctors, nurses, and engineers among others who are not qualified to do such jobs, hence putting the lives of Ghanaians in danger.
“The worse part of the Free SHS is that there is no repetition,” Mr Ayariga said at a press conference organised by the Inter-Party Resistance Against the New Voter Register, a coalition of six opposition political parties that are against the compilation of a new voters’ register for the 2020 general elections.
The parties are the All People’s Congress (APC), National Democratic Congress (NDC), Egle Party, United Progressive Party (UPP), United Front Party, and People’s National Convention (PNC).
Dr Ayariga said issues on free SHS would be addressed at another time, asking the government to consider channeling the money earmarked for the new voters’ register into the upgrading of the free SHS programme.
According to him, the free SHS programme was fraught with many challenges, and that since the country did not need any new voters’ register, compiling a new one would only lead to the waste of the country’s resources.
“We hold the view that any attempt to spend an additional cedi of Ghana’s tax payer’s money on a new register will amount to complete wastage and needless spending of limited state resources,” he said.
