Mahama promises to end double track system within a year

The Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former President, John Mahama, has assured that he will, within one year in office, eliminate the double track system that has plagued the smooth implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) Programme.

To achieve his target the former President explained that his government will embark on a fast-track programme to complete the abandoned Community Day Schools, expand infrastructure in existing schools, and include private schools in the Free SHS programme.

Addressing a community durbar of chiefs and farmers at Fawohoyeden in the Asunafo North district of the Ahafo Region, former President Mahama noted that he had always stood for quality free SHS and claims that he would cancel the free SHS programme is false, since he started the programme with day students during his administration.

While acknowledging that the country during the NDC era was not heaven, he maintained that the NDC had a better record than the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and indicated that today, everyone is suffering and can hardly make ends meet.

“These days nothing works, whether as a farmer, trader, driver or mechanic, the hardships are unbearable everywhere, we have to go back for the NDC and I know that by God’s grace, we shall be victorious and when I win the December 2020 elections, my government will reintroduce the free cocoa fertiliser intervention that was aborted by the NPP, to bring relief to cocoa farmers,” former President Mahama reiterated.

He also outlined a number of policies, programmes and social interventions contained in the ‘NDC 2020 People’s Manifesto’, including the Free Primary Health Care Plan, Free Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and the Free Apprenticeship Programme. -Starr FM