The Okyenhene, Ɔsagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin has described the free Senior High School policy as the greatest achievement in the world and urged Ghanaians to uphold it.
According to Ɔkyehene, many Junior High School graduates have been denied opportunities to further their education level to Senior High School due to poverty and hardship that engulfed their parents over the past years and this has destroyed their lives.
“For this reason, when President Akufo Addo and his New Patriotic Party’s government assumed office in 2017 after winning the 2016 elections they quickly initiated a free Senior High School education policy to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor to enable them study under the same umbrella because he [President Nana Addo] don’t want to see any JHS graduate staying at home as a result of poverty,” Ɔsagyefo Ofori Panin recounted.
The overlord of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council condemned the attitude of some of the SHS matrons who smuggled the students’ foodstuffs home and sold them and later on turned themselves and criticized the government that the students don’t get food to eat in school indicating they are very wicked people.
Ɔsagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin noted that Free SHS education is a very good initiative and since its inception in 2017 over 1.6 million youth have benefited from it so far.
“Therefore woe onto those especially the matrons and teachers in the various schools who are sabotaging the policy that has given hope to the poor to realize their dreams”.
He made this assertion during the 2024 Ohum Kan festival and the same time celebrating his 25th golden jubilee anniversary on the Ofori Panin stool.
“The youth play a major of nation-building and their education must be the topmost priority of every country, that is why we must do everything possible to protect the Free SHS education policy to allow every Ghanaian child to benefit from it to give them a brighter future,” he added.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnewsonline.com.
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