The Communications Director for Bawumia’s Campaign, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has criticised John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), for his comments about the New Patriotic Party’s one student, one tablet policy.
Mr. Aboagye contends that Mahama’s constant disparaging of the program is pointless and just serves to highlight his resentment that his government was unable to implement the project.
Mr. Mahama following the launch of the Ghana Smart Schools Project, which will see the New Patriotic Party (NPP) distribute 1.3 million smart tablets to Senior High School (SHS) students in the country, described the initiative as a vote-buying one from government.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, the Bawumia campaign Communications Director expressed disappointment in Mr. Mahama’s remarks, describing him as a hypocrite.
“It is problematic for all of us to find this failed former president, sets his eyes and heart and bitterness against these young Ghanaians as they benefit from the revolutionized education system. The rollout of one student, one tablet policy may have been hard to take for the NDC and the former president. Of course, for them, it’s a big hit because they failed to deliver on the same promise they made in their 2016 State of the Nation address,” he said.
“But on the heels of our hard-working Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the policy was launched, and distribution, as we speak, has started. These tablets come in to provide textbooks, past questions, lesson videos and other educational resources to help teaching and learning and to also really save costs for both students and government. Isn’t it unfortunate that the former president and the NDC, within the full-blown hypocritical parades, came to display their bitterness towards a policy and especially its beneficiaries who are all Ghanaians of this country?”
He further advised Mr. Mahama to stop the attacks on such a commendable government policy.
“The former president needs to do away with this bitterness against the beneficiaries of free SHS because clearly, they cannot be blamed for his failure as a president neither can the two occasions that he lost in elections or was rejected by the people of Ghana be blamed on these SHS beneficiaries.
“It is important that from today onwards, we see a complete seizure from the former president in the manner in which he goes about attacking the free SHS beneficiaries.”
