Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, the Communication Minister, has described the free Senior High School (SHS) being trumpeted by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as politically opportunistic.
He said the policy is unrealistic and unachievable and should not be bought by Ghanaians.
"Fifty years in the history of Ghana, we have not been able to achieve free compulsory basic education and yet Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the NPP are promising free SHS education within a period of four years", he said.
Mr. Iddrisu said this at Bu during the campaign launch of Dr. Benjamin Kumbuor, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the newly created Nandom Constituency.
The Communication Minister said the government did not just create the Nandom District but had also committed one million Ghana cedis as seed money for the Assembly.
Mr. Iddrisu announced the fixing of street lights in Nandom and said the government would also construct an ICT facility connected to the internet for the people of the area.
He appealed to the people to renew the mandate of the NDC to continue with its unprecedented developments towards the attainment of a "Better Ghana," and added that the government was committed to ensuring a peaceful election. Mr. Alban Bagbin, the Minister of Health, said the people made a mistake in the 2008 elections by not voting for Dr. Kumbuor but added that they had the opportunity to correct that mistake to pull more development to the district.
Mr. Bagbin, who is contesting the Nadowli West Constituency seat for the sixth time, urged people of the Upper West Region not to buy into the propaganda being spewed by the NPP that before they left office they had secured funding for the construction of the Regional Hospital in Wa.
He said government had now secured funding and the hospital would be constructed in no time.
Alhaji Amidu Sulemana, Upper West Regional Minister and the NDC Parliamentary candidate for Sissala West, urged the people to vote for President John Dramani Mahama to complete the ongoing rural electrification project.
Mr. Bede Zieden, a member of Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) which had rejoined the NDC, said NDC lost the seat in 2008 because of disunity and appealed to all supporters of the DFP in the constituency to vote for the NDC to enable them recapture the seat from the NPP.
Dr. Kumbuor, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, said despite all the political provocations from opposition members in the constituency, the election would still come to pass successfully without any violence.
Source: GNA
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