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Presidential debates are not new in Ghana, but today's contest is the first in the history of such engagements to involve an incumbent. With less than 40 days to the polls, education is expected to dominate the discussion which takes place in the north of the country where poverty and school drop out rates are endemic. Four presidential candidates including the president John Mahama and leader of the largest opposition party Nana Akufo-Addo are expected to tout their educational policy as the best- the opposition parties have promised free education but the president insist that is not possible now. The suggestion has pushed education to the front burner as a key election issue - overshadowing electricity, water and corruption which have for years dominated discussions. Our correspondent Sammy Darko visited the Labone Senior High School, in Accra to gauge the mode of students and some parents over this debate.
- danieloftat
danieloftat on October 30, 2012 09:14
Free means nothing to us, 'bridge the gab between first class, second an third class SHSs and we will be happy. Afterall this free education and is not really free
because it is our taxes that will be
used to pay in the long run not theirs, isn't it
cheating to control someone else' money? We need real education and jobs!
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