Deputy Education Minister Dr. Clement Apaak has refuted allegations made by the Minority Caucus that the cost of the free sanitary pad initiative for female students was inflated.
Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, Dr. Apaak denied the allegations made by the Minority.
He was responding to claims by the MP for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, regarding the allocation of 292 million Ghana cedis for the procurement of 6.6 million sanitary pads.
The MP stated during a debate on the floor of Parliament that the figures do not reflect prevailing market prices and suggest possible cost inflation.
However, Dr. Apaak indicated that this is only a desperate attempt by the Minority to discredit the government.
“For the Honourable Member of Parliament to disingenuously perform what the Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has described as chop bar arithmetic, we can only conclude that it is yet another desperate attempt to try and impute the existence of a scandal to the John Dramani Mahama-led government so that the decomposing elephant can seek to equalise. There is no scandal. There will never be a scandal,” he said.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
