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Report by NANA NYARKO/Beretuoba Kwabena Antwi Boasiako*
The Member of Parliament for the people of Kintampo North Constituency who doubles as a Member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education in Parliament, Hon. Joseph Kwame Kumah has lamented over a statement made by the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia. Hon Kumah has said that all the statements from the Vice President have been captured in the manifesto of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for 2020.
According to him, the most serious one is the decision to implement a policy of free laptops for students studies instead of textbooks.
Hon. Joseph Kwame Kumah said that, even the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Bawumia know clearly that they’re copying from their manifesto because they don’t even know the idea behind that policy and there is no way they can implement.
He referred Ghanaians to the issue of teachers who pay monies to this government to receive laptops but as we speak most of the teachers received nothing, he recalled.
Hon. Joseph Kumah lamented over the lack of text books in our various primary schools since the implementation of the new curriculum.
He added that even there was a time on the floor of Parliament when the Hon. Dr. Clement Apaak cautioned the Education minister Hon. Osie Yaw Adutwum over lack of text books.
“Now they are saying the text books are in but my brother go to the schools and see only the core subjects that are currently in the system and even not all students that get some of the books, why,” he asked.
He added that the government is owing those in charge of printing the textbooks and that’s the reality.
Hon. Joseph Kwame Kumah made these statements during a phone interview with Beretuoba Kwabena Antwi Boasiako.
Therefore the lawmaker concluded that it seems the people of Ghana have been taken for granted because politicians just got up and formulate policies that they know very well that they can’t implement just to win votes. He added that it is high time we learn from the Western world where top government officials resign as a result of unfulfilled policies.
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