Northern Youth for Nana Addo endorses free SHS

Northern Youth for Nana Addo (NOYONA), a youth pressure group aligned to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper West Region, has endorsed the party’s free Senior High School (SHS) education.

The youth group said if implemented, it would be one of the best education policies in the country since independence.

Mr. Iddris Bomsia, leader of NOYONA, at a media encounter in Wa, said the free SHS would help to alleviate the burden and suffering of parents, who strive hard to send their children to SHS, and put money in their pockets, thereby, helping to eliminate poverty.

He said this laudable idea proposed by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, NPP presidential candidate for Election 2012, should have been included in the manifestoes of other political parties rather than attacking it.

Mr. Bomsia expressed shock that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its presidential candidate, President John Dramani Mahama, a key beneficiary of free education, were vehemently opposing the free education policy.

He asked Ghanaians, particularly the youth not to fall prey to the unrealistic and uninformed tribal sentiments of the NDC.

Mr. Bomsia appealed to the electorate to vote massively for Nana Akufo-Addo in December, to enable him to implement the free SHS.