VIDEO: Mahama must be lauded for calling out Bawumia over furniture deficit in public basic schools – Dr. Apaak

The Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak says the flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama should be commended for for calling out Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia over furniture deficit in public basic schools.

“As running mate to NADAA in the run-up to the 2016 election, DMB visited Kperisi primary school in the Upper West Region, among others, where students sat on the floor to learn. News clips and pictures of his visit to Kperisi showed DMB wearing white, squatting [see picture] to talk to pupils sitting on the floor in a classroom in Kperisi primary school.

“DMB later granted interviews to media, during which he pledged to donate furniture to Kperisi primary school and went on to posit that the situation was widespread. He used the opportunity to castigate the then NDC government for failing to intervene in the plight of the marginalized” he narrated in a statement.

Below is the full statement

JDM must be commended for calling out DMB on the vexed matter of the current acute furniture deficit in our public basic schools.

As running mate to NADAA in the run-up to the 2016 election, DMB visited Kperisi primary school in the Upper West Region, among others, where students sat on the floor to learn. News clips and pictures of his visit to Kperisi showed DMB wearing white, squatting [see picture] to talk to pupils sitting on the floor in a classroom in Kperisi primary school.

DMB later granted interviews to media, during which he pledged to donate furniture to Kperisi primary school and went on to posit that the situation was widespread. He used the opportunity to castigate the then NDC government for failing to intervene in the plight of the marginalised.

Guess what, eight years down the line, and with him as Veep and now Flagbearer, the furniture situation in our public basic schools has worsened, in fact, execibated. According to Africa Education Watch, over 1.3 million pupils in our public basic school system have no access to furniture.

Unlike DMB, who has no plan [nothing in the 2024 NPP manifesto] to address the current acute furniture deficit in our basic schools, JDM has a plan as captured in the 2024 NDC manifesto. JDM will launch a ‘Furniture for All Initiative’ to address the acute furniture deficit at the basic level in partnership with the local carpentry and furniture industry.

Vote for Change. Vote for JDM/NDC. The alternative is the only option. Let’s rescue and reset Ghana by voting for JDM/NDC.

Dr. Clement Apaak
MP/PC, Builsa South and Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Education Committee