Gospel musician Nicholas Omane Acheampong
Gospel musician Nicholas Omane Acheampong insists that he cannot trust John Dramani Mahama when he says he will not cancel the Free SHS policy.
He has reached this conclusion due to comments made by the former President when the New Patriotic Party proposed the policy while they were in opposition.
The musician acknowledges that he might be criticized for holding this view but has developed a thick skin against insults from Ghanaians, especially members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
“If I sit aloof as a celebrity thinking about my brand and John Dramani Mahama is brought back as President, we will see that he has canceled the Free SHS policy. That is why I am not perturbed.
"Yes, he has said that he will not cancel it, but since the NPP proposed the policy, you know what he has been saying about it since 2008,” he said on Accra-based Joy FM.
Meanwhile, John Dramani Mahama has given assurances that he will not cancel Free SHS. In 2020, he was recorded saying, “Free Senior High School education has come to stay.
"If anybody tells you that I, John Dramani Mahama, son of E.A. Mahama, will abolish Free SHS when I come, tell the person he is a bloody liar. What I am against is the poor implementation of Free SHS, which is creating great inconvenience for parents, students, and teachers.
"The point I have made is that we can make it better. If this government had followed our plan of continuing with the 200 new Senior High Schools that we were building, we would not have the current situation that we have in our Free SHS plan.”
