The Minority Leader in Parliament, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson has said claims that the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) is against the proposed Free Senior High School(SHS) bill are false.
According to the Minority Leader, no such bill is before Parliament.
"There is currently no such bill before Parliament. We cannot oppose a bill that we have not seen," Ato Forson said in a post on Wednesday, June 12.
He explained that it was the founding NDC government that enshrined free education in the 1992 Constitution and also started implementing free SHS on a large scale in 2015 when they were in power.
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"The position of the NDC on the Free SHS program as publicly communicated by our flag-bearer and leader is to improve the implementation of the programme and address the challenges bedeviling it through a consultative approach."
Dr. Ato Forson stressed that when presented, "the NDC will support any legislation or effort aimed at making the Free SHS programme better and sustainable."
His comment comes after accusations that the NDC MPs are against the bill that will ensure the policy is sustained in the constitution.