Educationist Samuel Ziggah has slammed former Deputy Minister for Education and Member of Parliament for Assin South Constituency Rev. Ntim Fordjour for calling the ongoing National Educational Forum a waste of time.
The lecturer, without hesitation, asked the former deputy minister to remain silent and allow the current government to deal with the mess that the previous government had created.
” This National Forum is a positive initiative. However, I overheard the former deputy minister say that the forum was a waste of state resources. How dare he say it was unnecessary? The free SHS policy they implemented was a good idea, but it was poorly executed, and he has the audacity to call the forum unnecessary?
He said the current president has expressed commitment to reviewing the education sector and addressing all challenges and must be allowed to do so without any hindrance.
‘I was extremely disappointed with the former deputy minister. He is unaware of our educational heritage. Educational reforms are beneficial. We have repeatedly called for a review of the sector, but the former president and his appointees have told us that a review would result in cancellation. Under the NPP, students were promoted to the next class without any form of exam, and he says, What?”
He noted that the NPP refused to take its time in progressively implementing the policy but chose to do it wholesale in the face of infrastructural challenges.
” You had no idea where our students would be learning or sleeping, yet you implemented the policy in a wholesale manner. You did not provide our students with nutritious meals while at school. You had no plans to improve the policy, so in the short term, the education minister must take steps to revive and complete the abandoned community day schools established by President John Mahama in his first term,” he said on Nyankonton Mu Nsem on Rainbow Radio 87.5FM.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
