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National Youth Organizer for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye says the track record of former President John Dramani Mahama shows that the NDC under his leadership will not be able to absorb the full fees of tertiary students.

According to him, former President John Mahama could not pay the electricity and water bills of the tertiary institutions which were cheaper than the school fees that he is promising to absorb when voted back into power.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has emphatically announced that the next government of the party will absorb the full school fees of Ghanaian students who will be admitted to tertiary institutions in the 2020/2021 academic year.

According to a statement signed by the National Chairman, Cde Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the policy is an enhancement of the commitment in the People's Manifesto to absorb 50% of the school fees of all tertiary students for the 2020/2021 academic year through the “KYEMUPE” policy.

But reacting to the statement of the NDC on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Henry Nana Boakye said that a government under former President Mahama that could not pay for water and electricity bills for students cannot be taken seriously with their promise to absorb full fees of Ghanaian students who will be admitted to tertiary institutions.

“Ghanaians should know that former President Mahama gave a directive through his Running Mate Prof. Naana Opoku Agyeman in 2013 that the government would not be able to continue to pay utility bills again for all the tertiary institutions, and the students were made to pay the bills," he indicated.

He added that it was the Akufo-Addo government that came to restore the system and relief the students of that burden of paying for the utility bills imposed on them by former President John Dramani Mahama.

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