FCUBE: PPP heads to court for enforcement

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has said it is heading to court to seek enforcement of the Free, Compulsory, Universal, Basic Education (FCUBE) policy enshrined in the 1992 constitution.

The Supreme Court in May 2015 decline to hear the PPP’s application requesting the apex court to compel the government to enforce the FCUBE policy.

The court argued that the provisions relied upon by the PPP did not occasion any ambiguity to require an interpretation and hence referred the party to seek the enforcement of the policy at the High Court instead.

Addressing a press Conference in Accra on Thursday, July 7, the General Secretary of the PPP, Murtala Mohammed, said they will head to the high court to seek enforcement of the educational policy.

“Successive administrations, since Ghana returned to constitutional democracy in 1992, have failed to enforce those important constitutional provisions. The failure has resulted in many children roaming the streets instead of being in school”, he stated.

Speaking on the sidelines with Class News’ Ridwan Karim Dini Osman, Chairman of the party, Nii Allotey Brew-Hammond, said contrary to arguments by successive governments that FCUBE is a progressive policy, a PPP government will implement FCUBE with immediate effect.

“We have heard this progressive argument since I was a little boy. The PPP is saying that on January 2017, if Dr.Papa Kwesi Nduom is made the president, the compulsory education will start immediately. Why can’t they do it immediately? And if they say its money, look at the fence wall that cost $650,000”, he stated.

“…We are taking the case to the high court and the objective for the PPP is to ensure that government will enforce the FCUBE so that our children will not loiter around, that our children will also gain the experience of getting a skill that some of us have been able to attain”, he added.