A non-governmental organization (NGO), the African Foundation for Educational Development (AFFED), has advised the government to cancel the payment of trainee allowances.
It is their view that the payment of the allowances is having a huge toll on the government.
AFFED says the government is struggling to pay the allowances and has not paid the allowances since the last six months.
The NPP upon assuming power in 2017 restored the payment of the allowances.
The restoration took effect on Tuesday, September 12 2017 alongside the official launch of the free senior high school (SHS) programme.
He said the restoration of the allowances is part of the government’s efforts aimed at providing quality education under the free SHS programme.
AFFED in a statement signed by its Executive Director, Ernest Kwame Adade, said “It is undoubtedly clear how the government is suffocating in honouring its promise to pay trainee allowances especially at this time when the allowance has been in arrears for six (6) months.
“African Foundation for Educational Development(AFFED) has since the re-introduction of trainee allowance maintained that the purpose of allowance in our training institutions have been defeated and long outlived.
“The following must be done by government to save training colleges from their current appalling state. Cancel trainee allowance to give colleges a facelift.
“Channel the over Gh¢400 million into infrastructure development in the colleges, Colleges need their dormitories converted into hostels, classrooms upgraded into lecture halls, Trainees need updated libraries and standard laboratory. If as a country, we are still interested in providing incentive for trainees, then the better incentive is a total reduction of the extravagant fees they pay.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
