Host of Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo', Kwami Sefa Kayi, has debunked reports that he's calling for the abolishment of the Free Senior High School (FSHS) policy.
Popularly known as the Chairman General, Sefa Kayi believes after nearly 5 years of the program, government and stakeholders in the education sector need to deliberate on fine-tuning certain aspects.
According to him, "I don't understand why after 4 or 5 years of free SHS, it has not been reviewed . . . How can someone who attends Achimota (for instance) and parents stay at East Legon or airport be made not to pay school fees? How? We can make tuition free but charge those at boarding houses.
“All I'm asking is, it's been five years let's do a review . . . My opinion is; pay for tuition, exam fee, library fee etc but those who want boarding school must pay".
However, he has been heavily criticized on social media after some circulated reports that he's asking the government to scrap their flagship programme since it was becoming expensive to manage.
Giving a rebuttal on Monday's edition of his show, the award-winning journalist said: "I haven't said anywhere that Free SHS should be abolished . . . I've asked that after 5 years, let's review it; let's look at the dynamics of it: has it worked? how much money have we spent? value for money audit, where can we cut out . . . but I've never said it should be abolished".
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Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Chairman I understand what you are saying in totality. However there is a little problem, not all students who are in boarding schools are rich. some are in fact very poor but they have to be in boarding schools due to long distances from home. thus if we use your formula we will end up distressing the already poor who are in boarding schools and there are many of them. Here is what I think, the government should do set a threshold on an amount of family income which if a family unit generates more than, and their kids are in boarding schools then they must pay some form of fees. For a start we let parents self declare if they earn more than the threshold. if they do, then they have to pay if they under declare and they are found out it will be deemed a criminal offense and their kids will be removed from schools. This self declaration and a few scapegoats will cause people to tell the truth and then some monies can be collected from the rich to finance education in Ghana.