Deputy Ranking Member on the Education Committee of Parliament, Dr. Clement Apaak, has indicated that the over 560,000 candidates from basic schools sitting for the 2024 Basic Education Certification (BECE) examination have never had the benefit of textbooks from junior high school one to three.
The Member of Parliament for Builsa South stated that the ruling government failed to release resources for the printing of textbooks but found it prudent to waste GHC12 million for no work done in the Pawlugu Dam project.
He also slammed the government for spending 2.5 million dollars on feasibility studies for a sky train and paying GHC 399 million for the biggest pit in the controversial Cattedral Project.
In a brief statement, the lawmaker said is it not notan 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?”
He posited that this government has mismanaged the basic school system.
“This is yet another example of how shabbily this Akufo-Addo/Bawumia NPP gov’t has handled basic education.”
Below is the statement from the MP
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
