BECE: Akufo-Addo, Bawumia have shabbily handled basic education – Dr. Apaak   

The deputy ranking on the Education Committee in Parliament, Dr. Clement Apaak has exposed how President Akufo-Addo and his Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia have abysmally handled basic education in the country.

According to him, the Akufo-Addo-led administration has spent huge sums of money on non-existing projects to the detriment of basic education.

Did you know that our children currently writing BECE never had the benefit of textbooks from JHS1 to JHS3?

Guess what? The same govt, which cannot find money to pay for the printing of sufficient textbooks for our wards in basic school based on the new curriculum, gave away 12M dollars to a company for no work done at Pwalugu, gave away 2.5M dollars for feasibility studies for a sky train, and paid 399M cedis for the biggest pit, among others”, Dr. Apaak disclosed in a brief statement.

Below is the full statement 

Did you know that our children currently writing BECE never had the benefit of textbooks from JHS1 to JHS3?

Guess what? The same govt, which cannot find money to pay for the printing of sufficient textbooks for our wards in basic school based on the new curriculum, gave away 12M dollars to a company for no work done at Pwalugu, gave away 2.5M dollars for feasibility studies for a sky train, and paid 399M cedis for the biggest pit, among others.

Is it not an embarrassment and an indictment that we still don’t have the full complement of textbooks based on a curriculum that has been in effect since September 2019?

This is yet another example of how shabbily this Akufo-Addo/Bawumia NPP gov’t has handled basic education.

Dr. Clement Abas Apaak
MP, Builsa South and Deputy Ranking Member on the Education Committee of Parliament

Source: Today.com.gh