Running mate to John Mahama, flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has challenged the governing NPP to prove with evidence that the NDC will cancel the Free Senior High School (SHS) program when voted into power.
Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang reiterated that the NDC will review the program to tackle the challenges bedeviling the program.
In view of that, she insisted that claims that the NDC will cancel the program are deliberate attempts by the opposition party to score cheap political goals.
Her comments follow the majority's claim that the NDC legislators are failing to support a bill to regulate the Free SHS program .
She was speaking at Akyem-Tafo in the Eastern region as part of her tour of the Abuakwa North constituency.
"Anybody who has evidence that John Mahama had said anywhere that he will cancel Free SHS should provide it. If the person is unable to do so, let no one take that person serious. We haven't said anything like that.
"During our time, did you ever hear of double track? What we have said repeatedly is that, there are challenges and these challenges ought to be be reviewed," she explained
The one day visit to the Abuakwa North constituency took her to the Headquarters of the Saviour Church of Ghana at Osiem where she had a close door meeting with the head of the church, Opanyin Abraham Edusei.
After the meeting, Professor Naana Opoku Agyemang and her entourage were welcomed to Akyem-Tafo by enthusiastic supporters of the party.
In her remarks, Prof. Opoku Agyemang assured that the next NDC government will make the program better as it did with the progressively free SHS under John Mahama's first term.
"We started the progressively free SHS because we knew paying fees was a burden for parents. However, there were some parents who could afford whilst others could not. Should such children be denied the opportunity to go to school?"
"During our time, we took care of their shoes, bags among others and nobody ever heard about shortage of books.
"If anybody wakes up today claiming that the NDC is against Free SHS, the person doesn't know what he is saying," she stated.
From the chief's palace, she visited the Akyem-Tafo palm oil extraction factory which was gutted by fire, destroying properties and gallons of palm Oil.
The NDC running mate whilst assuring victims of the fire outbreak of fixing the broken factory, donated an amount of fifty thousand cedis to support them.
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