The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said that due to the implementation of the free Senior High School policy, there’s a shortage of young girls who hitherto would’ve been serving as housemaids in the homes of affluent families mostly in the cities due to the inability of their parents to pay for their secondary school education.
“In fact, when we implemented free SHS, a lot of middle-class families in Accra and other cities were finding it difficult to find house helps because the parents of the girls came for them and took them to school,” he stated.
According to the Vice President, out of the 400,000 increase in SHS enrolment since the introduction of the ‘free SHS policy’ half of that number are young girls.
This he said has led to some people in the cities looking for housemaids because the existing ones have left for school in the past four years.
“Free SHS has been beneficial especially to the girl child,” he stressed.
Speaking as the guest speaker at the launch of the Konkomba Education Endowment Fund- KEEF, at the University of Ghana Business School, Dr. Bawumia said government’s investment in the education sector is borne out of a deliberate effort to build a wealth of human resources.
“Africa is the continent with the fastest-growing youth population and are the potential of the future.”
He stated that, when the NPP government took over, many parents couldn’t afford to pay for fees of their wards, especially the girl child.
He further added that if president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had listened to critics of the initiative, a number of children wouldn’t have enjoyed free secondary education.
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