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.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe 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\u2019t 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?<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, chiefs, there are good governments and poor governments, and that\u2019s the truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe 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,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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.\u00a0 According to Opoku Prempeh, his act will not be condoned, especially when he (Mahama) severally ridiculed the policy in its initial stages of implementation, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,223,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-24-news","category-news","category-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16934,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions\/16934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}