The Vice-Presidential candidate of the NPP towards the 2024 elections, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has slammed former president, John Dramani Mahama for trying to take credit for the ‘Free SHS’ programme.
According to Opoku Prempeh, his act will not be condoned, especially when he (Mahama) severally ridiculed the policy in its initial stages of implementation, saying it would not work.
Opoku Prempeh said this while campaigning in Jema in the Kintampo South Constituency of the Bono East Region, at a durbar attended by chiefs, the clergy, other identifiable groups, and the townspeople.
He further explained that, Mahama went as far as saying that the Free SHS students passed their exams because they were allowed to cheat, among many statements to misinform Ghanaians that the policy was not feasible.
“He claimed he was the one who initiated the Free SHS programme. But this is the same person who said that even if he had the money, he wouldn’t use it for Free SHS, calling it a 419 scheme and claiming that it was destroying education. If he truly started it, would he have made such statements?
“So, chiefs, there are good governments and poor governments, and that’s the truth.
“He is the only one whose government came into power, and for four of the eight years that the NDC was in power, the country was plunged into darkness for five years,” he said.
