Member of Parliament for Akatsi North and Ranking Member on the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Peter Nortsu, has asked the Government of Ghana to immediately release the 20 per cent funds promised for the Free Senior High School programme to the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) to enable them man their schools effectively.
CHASS has revealed that the various senior high schools across the country have not received funds for the implementation of the Free Senior High School programme.
The government promised to make 20 per cent of the funds for the implementation of the programme available to the schools before the start of the programme.
But the General Secretary of CHASS, Samuel Gyebi Yeboah, told Chief Jerry Forson, host of Accra FM’s Ghana Yensom on Tuesday, September 5 that: “Although the Free SHS is starting this September we haven’t received the funds yet.
“We are however optimistic that the government will released the funds to the various senior high school schools across the country.”
Mr Nortsu, also speaking with the show’s host on Tuesday said: “Since the government started talking about the programme we have cautioned government against the financial implications and that they needed to be very cautious.
“It is very costly to run a free senior high school education and it is our hope that they will be able to release the money to them.
“Schools are about a week or few days to reopen so we just pray that they can release the money that they have promised because the schools are not going to charge any fee for those going for the first year.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
