Stop politicising education – Mustapha Hamid

Information Minister, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has implored Ghanaians to tackle issues of education in the country as a national concern rather than play politics with it. He says matters bordering on education should not be politicised.

According to him, the NPP will resist any attempt by the Minority in Parliament to ‘witch-hunt’ President Akufo-Addo following the implementation of the policy.

“If we politicize education and we have the kind of terrible human resource that we have, we are going to be saddled with the kind of social problems that we are saddled with: Ignorance, disease, poverty, etc. I’m here talking to you as Minister of Information, poor boy from Upper East and Northern Region, I am talking to you like this because of education, if I hadn’t gone to school, what would be my locus, education is my locus. So, really and truly, issues of education, we should try as much as possible to depoliticise it”.- he said.

The Minority in Parliament and that of  Franklin Cudjoe, President of IMANI GHANA has accused government for the confusion that has characterized the computerized placement system. Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu has said on countless times that, the placement system is the worst and most incompetently handled in the history of Ghana.

However, the Minister told journalists at the Regional Coordinating Council in Tamale on Tuesday night that the government thinks through its policies thoroughly before deploying them as part of measures to transform the country.

“When government sits through and we think about a policy and a matter, we have done so sincerely, believing it to be the best option for our country”, he stressed.

Ahead of its official launch by President Akufo-Addo to fully commence the programme on Tuesday September 12, 2017, the Minority is asking government to cut out the pump and pageantry and focus on solving the issues.

But Mustapha Hamid indicated the policy will continue to be free no matter the amount of negative and propagandist statements made against it, especially from the NDC.

He accused some civil society groups and and adhere them to always stop finding fault with interventions and programmes of government when there are none.