Nana Addo's free SHS not feasible - K.B Asante

A retired Ghanaian diplomat, K.B Asante says the

According to him, the implementation is not sustainable adding that parents should be responsible for the education of the children they bring on earth, not the state.

He said he is against the policy because parents will shirk their responsibility to their wards.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his government will absorb the cost of Senior High School education beginning September 2017.

The free public SHS education, Nana Addo said, was aimed at building an educated populace for speedy national development and progress.

"By free SHS, we mean that in addition to tuition, which is already free, there will be no admission fees, no library fees, no science centre fees, no computer laboratory fees, no examination fees, no utility fees. There will be free textbooks, free boarding and free meals and day students will get a meal at school for free.

"Free SHS will also cover agricultural, vocational and technical institutions at the high school level," Nana Addo said.

But K.B Asante in an interview on Accra FM, noted that "We voted for a government and we think it will competently administer the country. If the money [were] not there, I don’t think the government would have announced it, so, let us assume that the money will be there.

"From the little I know about financing, I do not think we can sustain it, but I am not in charge and I don’t have all the facts and figures, so let’s hope for the best."