RESIDENTS of Cape Coast in the Central Region have implored President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to stick to his campaign promises in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) today.
They urged him to throw more light on the implementation of his promises, particularly the free Senior High School (SHS) policy, one district, one factory amongst other policies when he addresses the nation.
In an interview with a cross-section of Cape Coast residents, most of them expressed the hope that the president will indeed give the true State of the Nation as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) left it to enable Ghanaians know where “we are heading economically.”
A resident, Carlos Brown, charged the president to tell the nation the real state of the nation, especially on energy and the economy and the way forward in remedying the problems.
He also expects the president to touch on his flagship programmes such as the Zongo Development and job creation and reveal the source of funding for their implementations.
A banker, Mr. Rashid Abrobrah, also expects the president to touch on security, railway and improved extension services in the agricultural sector.
A private school teacher, Mr. Isaac Acquah, expressed worry about the fate of private schools, and charged the president to throw more light on the state of private schools with the implementation of the free SHS policy.
He appealed to the president to find alternative channel to make private SHS still attractive to the public by outlining clear cut grades qualifying students to the public SHS to benefit from it to enable others who do not qualify to apply for the private schools.
He again charged the president to expatiate on the Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh’s, directive to deal with heads of schools, who underperform to help keep them on their toes.
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