ASANTEHENE TAKES STRONG POSITION ON FREE SHS, DOUBLE TRACK SYSTEM

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The Asantehene. Otumfuo Osei Tutu, has described implementation of the free second cycle education policy as the "most epoch-making decisions in the entire history of Ghana to offer every Ghanaian child the opportunity to obtain education through the senior high school entirely free." 

According to him, without any doubt, the policy is "the bravest decisions taken by any government in the country’s history with life-changing ramifications for all Ghanaian families for now and decades into the future." Addressing heads of public senior high schools at their 56th Annual Conference in Kumasi on the theme: “The Free Senior High Policy; The Role of Stakeholders", Otumfuo Osei Tutu noted that the policy was not implemented out of the blue considering that fact that, there were several attempts by governments in the pre-and post-independence to introduce similar programmes while the 1992 Constitution has also made room for such a policy. 

The Asantehene said, considering the fact that the issue was exhaustively debated in the last three electioneering, the decisive victory of proponents of the issue in the 2016 presidential and Parliamentary elections conclusively settles what Ghanaian electorate want saying that to go back now and rehash the alternative arguments put up during the campaigning period may be "tantamount to an attempt to reverse the result of the elections and i fear that cannot be good for our democracy."

Drawing attention to the circumstances through which the Shift system was introduced at the basic level of the formal education system as well as the commencement of the Medical School under a tree at the Korle-Bu in Accra, the Asantehene said the planned double tracking system is nothing new in Ghana’s educational system.

"So the onus is clearly on the government to deliver and logically, all good citizens should feel an obligation to cooperate or at the very least, not to frustrate the authorities in the implementation of the legitimate mandate of the people", Otumfuo Osei Tutu warned critics. 

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