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Mahama must be commended for calling out DMB over the current acute furniture deficit in our public basic schools – MP

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A Deputy Ranking Member on the Education Committee of Parliament, Dr. Clement Apaak, has stated that former President John Dramani Mahama must be commended for calling out Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia over the current acute furniture deficit in our public schools.

He said while in opposition, Dr. Bawumia visited the Kperisi primary school in the Upper West region, where students sat on the floor to learn and made, took photos of the situation, and alleged that it was a widespread situation.

The Builsa South MP said the then vice presidential candidate granted interviews and castigated the NDC and accused it of failing to intervene in the plight of the marginalised in society.

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Dr. Apaak asserted that despite the political capital Dr. Bawumia made out of the situation, the furniture deficit in our schools has worsened, with over 1.3 million pupils said to be without furniture.

He said, unlike Dr. Bawumia, who has no plan in his manifesto for tackling the situation, the NDC will introduce a ‘Furniture for All Initiative’ to address the acute furniture deficit at the basic level in partnership with the local carpentry and furniture industry.

Former President John in a recent remark during a campaign tour of the Upper West Region said Dr. Bawumia, while in opposition, roamed about in the region looking for schools without furniture and taking pictures for his political purposes to castigate the NDC, but today, 1.3 million basic school students have no furniture, and yet Dr. Bawumia, who is in charge of budgets and doesn’t need to use his personal resources to purchase the furniture, has refused to act.

He then challenged him to visit the schools in the region without furniture and provide them with furniture.

Dr. Apaak, in his response, opined that Mr. Mahama must be commended for calling out the Vice President.

In a tweet on X, formerly Twitter, the MP said;

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, exacerbated. 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

By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana

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