Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah has urged former
President John Dramani Mahama to stop passing cynical
comments about social intervention policies being implemented by
government.
Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah advised John Mahama to make his public
utterances based on facts, and in the interest of the nation.
“The administration thereby encourages the former President that
when it comes to state and national matters, it will be best if he
speaks in the national interest, and speak to facts,” he stated.
The Information Minister was reacting to recent claims by former
President Mahama that he had encountered many students who
have complained about how bed bugs have infested their
dormitories due to the congestion as a result of the Free SHS.
He accused the former President of working against government’s
Free SHS programme, emphasizing the latter’s subtle attempts at
‘demonizing’ the project at the least opportunity.
Addressing the press Monday, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah disclosed
that government has fumigated 678 out of 700 public Senior High
Schools to get rid of bedbugs and other insects.
According to the Minister, the erstwhile Mahama administration
did not record any form of fumigation exercise in Senior High
Schools but have deliberately decided to overlook the feats of the
Akufo-Addo administration.
“There are no records available of the last time all senior high
schools in Ghana were fumigated comprehensively even under the
tenure of former President Mahama like has been done today. It is
interesting that things that he did not do even, even when it is done
under this administration, he seeks to pretend he is not aware,”
Oppong-Nkrumah noted.
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