Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has issued out a strong warning to the ruling the NPP concerning 7th December’s polls.
According to the ace journalist, the NPP should not be convinced that their FREE SHS Policy is an automatic bypass to win the elections.
Sharing his thoughts on PEACE FM about the results of the impending elections, he highlighted some major events in the history of Ghana where political parties promised free education but it didn’t translate into votes.
…They are the first political party that didn’t only promise but also showed how they were going to raise the money. The Convention People’s Party also brought about this policy in the year 2000 . . . but nobody voted for them. So, when you take a critical look at it, it doesn’t mean necessarily you will be voted for because the pioneers were not even voted for. From the 1950s, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah introduced free compulsory basic education; enrollment in Secondary schools went up about nearly 1000 percent in the space of five years and so on but he was even overthrown…
Source: Gossips24.com
