On the issue of giving the disadvantaged Ghanaian youth access to free
Senior High School education, President Mahama is unfortunately
behaving like a selfish person who first enters through a door and
shuts it behind him so others will not go through it.
Unlike millions of Ghanaian children, John Dramani Mahama is from a
privileged background. His late father was one of the corrupt
ministers of the late President Kwame Nkrumah?s administration. The
late Mahama was an affluent man who could have paid to educate his
children like the many less financially endowed Ghanaians of President
Nkrumah?s era, yet Mr. Mahama sought to take advantage of Nkrumah?s
free education for the North to educate the numerous children he
fathered, including President John Dramani Mahama.
On page 113-114 of his book, My First coup de tat, president Mahama
stated as follows; ?As soon as Dad organized the house and got the
farm up and running, he moved all of us kids from Accra to Tamale to
live with him. For Dad, one of the benefits of living in Tamale was
that Northerners attended school free of charge. Ghana was still
making tremendous efforts to provide greater access to education in
the north, so it has put in place a programme called the Northern
Scholarship Scheme that enabled kids from the north to attend school,
from primary straight through to the end of their education, with the
government providing for tuition, room and board, full uniform
(including sandals), and books. All of my siblings were transferred to
boarding schools?.
One would expect that a President Mahama who benefited from free
education and strangely claims to be a youth at age 54 and therefore
clamors for the support of the youth would unconditionally support the
very educational policy that would ? develop and empower the YOUTH.
Now, the million dollar question is why does President Mahama want to
deny less privileged Ghanaian children access to free education that
he and his many siblings enjoyed that has enabled him to become
President of the Nation, even if by accident or design? And his
brother Ibrahim who also benefited from the same program and is now
flying around the world in his own private jet.
By his opposition to the Free Senior High School Education, President
Mahama is demonstrating two of his character traits that Ghanaians
voters must take note of, come December 7, elections. The traits are
wickedness and hypocrisy.
President Mahama is wicked, in that, he wants to create a perpetual
under class of Ghanaian youth, which he detests and describes in very
uncomplimentary terms in his book, a class which Ezra?s father ? a
farmer belongs to. Mahama believes people from Ezra?s father?s class
should not be sending their children to Achimota School. By
perpetuating this under class, corrupt politicians like John Dramani
Mahama and his father before him can afford to send their children to
Senior High Schools exclusively, while the rest of the society get
stuck in abject poverty. John Mahama is the ?selfish ?elite who goes
through the door of opportunity of ?free education ?and has the
audacity ?to ?slam the door behind him, denying same ?opportunities to
the majority poor youth of Ghana
President Mahama is a hypocrite of the highest order by his opposition
to Free Senior High School Education. Here is a man who fleeced Ghana
of millions of dollars through his ponzi scheme in search of medical
science education for children from under privileged background in
Cuba.
Need John Dramani Mahama be reminded that Communist Cuba was able to
achieve its educational feat, which he thinks it is worthy of
emulation through ?Free Education??
Why then are Mahama and his NDC vehemently opposing the Free SHS
Education? ?The factual explanation is that President Mahama and his
corrupt cohorts do not get it since they ?lack the requisite
leadership competencies to ?envision and implement ? bold ?policies
that are simply the reserve of courageous and visionary leaders like
Nana Addo and the NPP.
The NPP has an unequalled track record of visionary programs deemed
untenable/unachievable by the cluesless NDC. The NPP ?s visionary
programs include: ?the Metro Mass Transit, the National Health
Insurance Scheme, Free Maternal Care for expectant and nursing
mothers, Capitation Grant and the School Feeding Programme ?and the
gargantuan ?oil discovery .
President Mahama?s abysmal record in the past three and half years
attests to his leadership incompetence. President John Mahama has been
an active and willing participant in some of the most scandalous
contracts and loan agreements in the countr. His and NDC?s prime focus
is looting wealth rather than envisioning and implementing visionary
policies for the betterment of mother Ghana.
It is very interesting that the NDC and its scheming Mahama always
take Ghanaians for fools. They can use all their incoherent semantic
in their frantic efforts to throw dust in our eyes about their
uncompromising stand on the Free SHS Education all they want. The
NPP-USA and the majority of the good people of Ghana will prove to
John Dramani Mahama and his incompetent, corrupt, and lying NDC that
they are on the wrong side of history on the Free SHS Education
policy. President John Dramani Mahama?s position on Free SHS Education
is simply unconscionable. We want FREE SHS EDUCATION NOW.
NPP-USA Public Relations Committee.
