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Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has made a passionate call to the government to do something immediately about school children in public schools as the covid-19 pandemic rages.
According to him, compared to their counterparts in the private schools they are the most deprived without Zoom or television sets in their homes to enhance learning.
“We need to take urgent steps to ensure that they don’t lose their foundation training and their foundation years.”
“If they lose their foundation years forget it because this is the only period they can learn numeracy and literacy,” he said.
Hon. Haruna Iddrisu who is also the MP for Tamale South made the call while contributing to a statement to commemorate International Day of Education that stood in the name of MP for Old Tafo Vincent Assafuah.
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The day, which fell on Sunday 24th January 2021 was celebrated around the world on Monday 25th January 2021 under the theme, “Recover and Revitalize Education for the COVID-19 Generation.”
He noted that while celebrating the day, the government must also reflect and ponder on what to do to avert the growing inequality in the country, and what to do as a country to assure Ghanaian children of their protection.
The Coronavirus disease, he said, may produce another set of poverty and indicated that 500 million in the world are reported to likely fall under the poverty line arising out of the pandemic.
The Minority leader noted that while commending President Akufo-Addo for implementation of the free SHS, there is also a need to acknowledge the foundation for the initiative was built by others.
He said, “That is why students benefiting from it are sleeping in dormitories built by previous governments. They are in classrooms previously built so the success hinges on the early investments made in the education sector.”
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Hon. Vincent Assafuah, in his presentation, showered plaudits on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for implementation of the free SHS
According to them, the initiative is the biggest and most revolutionary social policy intervention by any government in the 4th Republican Democracy.
He argued that the Free SHS has the potential to redefine basic education from Kindergarten to include SHS, vocational, agricultural as well as technical schools and the possibility of granting access to millions of children.
Hon. Assafuah stated that though the Ghanaian education story is not all gloomy, the implementation of the free universal education by the President has charted a new course for the country hence the need to acknowledge his effort.
FrontPageGhana.com/Osumanu A. Marani
