Over two thousand Agric trainees are picketing at the premises of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture(MoFA) to protest government’s failure to redeem a campaign promise to restore their allowances.
The demonstration by the students from the five Agricultural training colleges in the country comes a day after government launched the restoration of the nursing trainee allowances at Sunyani.
Students of the Kwadaso Agric Training College embarked on a protest Tuesday to register their displeasure over government’s decision not to restore their trainee allowances.
In 2013, the government of former president John Mahama scrapped the payment of allowances to students of colleges of education including the Kwadaso Agric Training College.Â
Although the decision was met with disapproval, the president explained that the move was to ensure increased enrollment in colleges of education and upgrade of the status of such institutions. The cancellation of the allowances became a key element of the Akufo-Addo campaign.
However, after 10 months of being in government, the students of the Kwadaso Agric Training College are protesting the failure of the Akufo-Addo led administration, to fulfil the campaign promises made to them.
According to the Students Representative Council(SRC) president of the Kwadaso Agric training college, Stanley Mensah, government is being selective in restoring the allowances hence their protest.
“We are not different from the Nurses neither are we different from the Teachers, so if they have restored that of these two institutions nothing stops them from restoring ours as well. We are going to be at the premises of the Agric Ministry until we also receive our share,†he noted.
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