The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) high-flying campaign banner of free senior high school education, is a choice to bring Ghanaians in line for a march against underdevelopment.
There is the other choice of only squinting at the issue, without the resolve to act.
Ms Elizabeth Ohene, Minister responsible for Higher Education in the John Agyekum Kufuor administration made this remark during the re-launch of Volta Region NPP Youth Wing in Ho on Saturday.
She said the NPP idea is to raise educational standards of the people as bastions for development, just as is happening in other countries.
Ms Ohene said the NPP “thinks education is important” and so decided to give it the prime of place by routing for free senior secondary education.
She said the NPP had a good track record of visionary educational management, being the political party which made two years of kindergarten education part of basic school education.
Ms Ohene said the NPP is again on the verge of redefining basic school education.
Mr. Stephen Amoah, Member of NPP Communication Team said economic indices being flaunted by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is not in consonance with the living standards of the people.
Mr. Mathew Opoku-Prempeh, Member of Parliament for Manhyia, who stood in place of ex-President Kufuor as Guest Speaker, said the NDC is hard pressed finding valid points to counter NPP programmes.
He said propaganda could not sustain a government as the truth always triumphed.
Mr. Kenwuud Nuworsu, NPP Regional Chairman, evidently upbeat about the good attendance of the launch said a youth-led reawakening to the important stake of the NPP in the politics of Ghana is imminent.
He noted that propaganda and little prejudices had worked against the interest of the NPP in the region but stressed that it would not keep the region in perpetual ignorance of happenings in political circles across the country.
He slammed the media for not raising and putting issues of development in their proper perspectives, thus allowing for half-truths and lies on the history of projects to flourish.
Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Ho-Central NPP Parliamentary Candidate said a “political tsunami” is about to happen in the region that would see the NPP gaining a lot of grounds in a region touted as a stronghold of the NDC.
A rally at Aflao, placing of wreaths on the graves of Major Courage Quashigah, Minister in the Kufuor regime and S.G Antor, Ghana’s Ambassador to Togo during the Busia regime, both luminaries of the NPP and a fundraising dinner dance were highlights of the launch.
Source: GhanaWeb
