The Registrar of the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat Kingsley Agyemang says the opposition NDC’s promise to absorb all cost element for the 2020/2021 fresh tertiary students is knee-jerk.
According to him, the promise by the opposition party is only intended at winning votes in the upcoming Presidential and Parliamentary polls.
“NDC’s policy of free tertiary payment is a knee-jerk reaction after they rejected the free SHS policy. NDC’s program is laughable and besides talk is cheap. Mr Mahama said if he had money, he wouldn’t spend it on free SHS,” he told Francis Abban on the Morning Starr Wednesday.
He, however, stressed the Akufo-Addo government is committed to assisting the new tertiary students with scholarships.
“For the first batch of free SHS graduates, GHc20M has been set aside to take care of that stream of students that will enter our tertiary institutions,” he said.
Meanwhile, the NDC says it has done costing for its promised Free tertiary fee for the 2020/2021 academic year students.
According to the party, the promise was made after the necessary cost elements were considered by the education subcommittee of its manifesto committee.
Source : Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh