NDC practically eliminated schools under trees before Akufo-Addo took over – Apaak

Builsa South Member of Parliament, Dr. Clement Apaak, has said that presently, there are 5000 schools that are operating under trees in Ghana.

He criticized the Akufo-Addo administration for allowing this to happen because, in his view, the previous Mahama administration practically removed all schools under trees.

“There are presently over 5,000 schools under trees. NDC had practically eliminated schools under trees before Akufo-Addo took over,” Dr Apaak told TV3’s Kemini Aamnor on the Hot Issues on Sunday, May 13.

Dr Clement Apaak further raised an issue of furniture deficits in the basic schools which he said has caused about 1 million pupils in Ghana to sit on the floor to learn.

Hhe stated that his flagbearer, Former President John Dramani Mahama, would eliminate the problem of furniture deficits in the basic schools in order to address this matter.

The ranking member on the parliament’s committee on education said “[John Mahama] will address the issue of the furniture shortage. As we speak now, we have a furniture deficit in excess of one million.

“What that means is that about one million of our wards go to school every day and they have to sit on the floor or sit on blocks to study. That clearly cannot be acceptable.”

About 1 million pupils sit in the floor to learn in Ghana – Dr Clement Apaak, MP for Builsa South on funding basic education.#HotIssues pic.twitter.com/ElkjlPUyPy

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