Flagbearer hopeful, Dr Kwabena Duffour says a future National Democratic Congress (NDC) government with him as President will eliminate all schools under trees.
Speaking during a tour of the Central Region ahead of the party’s presidential primaries, he said contractors who are indigenes of the beneficiary communities will be in charge of the construction of the schools.
The former Finance Minister has had cause to refocus his campaign on education infrastructure in the past few days.
This follows a recent report of students of the Ghana Secondary School (GHANASCO) in Tamale using toilet cubicles for accommodation has triggered uproar across the country.
He says it exposes the many challenges facing the education sector including lack of buildings for students to study in, a situation his administration will tackle head-on.
“If we come to power, we will solve the problem of schools under trees. This time we will allow local contractors and artisans in the various communities to undertake the construction,” he told the teeming crown in the region.
Former National Organizer of the NDC, Yaw Boateng Gyan who is on the campaign trail with the former Finance Minister revealed in 2012 after the demise of President John Evans Atta Mills, together with three national executive members of the party, they stood their ground and did not allow the opening of nominations for others to contest John Mahama.
He says that action was necessary because it was just five months before the elections.
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