The minority in Parliament has revealed that they will probe the utilisation of a $1.5 billion loan secured by the government using GETFund proceeds as security for improvement in educational infrastructure in the country.
The government in November 2018 secured the facility ostensibly to address infrastructural challenges occasioned by the free SHS policy. The facility was to see to the end of the double-track system which was supposed to be a temporary measure to deal with the huge intake accompanying the free SHS policy.
However, speaking to the media after touring a Community Day SHS project in Aflao, deputy ranking member for the education committee Dr. Clement Apaak questioned why the project which is 90% complete has been left to rot in spite of the GETFund facility approved by parliament.
The Builsa South MP disclosed the minister has questions to answer adding they will summon him to questions on the loan.
MP for Ketu South Dzifa Gomashie also argued that the delay in completing the project is a devastation to the community which lacks a single senior high school.
Ranking member for the education committee Peter Nortsu also revealed that thieves are already stealing fans and other fittings at the project site.
Meanwhile, Paramount chief for the Aflao traditional area Torgbui Fiti Amenya V in the strongest words possible questioned why the government should be begged to put the project to use.
According to him, residents of Aflao have had to move into neighbouring Togo to acquire education which has now also been truncated by the closure of the land borders.
The delay in completion of the project he stated has deprived the community of benefiting from the government’s free SHS policy.
Torgbui Fiti consequently ordered the government to populate the school by the next academic year.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh
