The inconsistency on the part of government officials with regards to the source of funding for the Free Senior High School programme is disturbing, Fiifi Kwetey, a former Minister of Transport, has said. His comment follows assurances given by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta that the government will not use the Heritage Fund to finance the … Read more
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said the Akufo-Addo government has ample resources to bankroll its Free Senior High School policy without needing to touch the Heritage Fund. “We are financing the Free SHS education without looking at the Heritage Fund. We are not touching the Heritage Fund. I think we have enough resources from our … Read more
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has stated that the Akufo-Addo led government will not use the Heritage Fund to bankroll the free Senior High School policy. “We are financing the Free SHS education without looking at the Heritage Fund. We are not touching the Heritage Fund,” Mr. Ofori Atta told journalists Thursday after the Achimota Speak … Read more
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said the Akufo-Addo government has no intention of touching the Heritage Fund to bankroll the Free Senior High School policy. “We are not going to touch the Heritage Fund to be able to support the free SHS education,” Ofori-Atta told Accra-based Joy FM. Mr Ofori-Atta’s clarification follows a comment by … Read more
Government will soon review the Petroleum Act to make it possible for it to use the Heritage Fund for key developmental projects, Senior Minister, Yaw OsafoMaafo has announced. According to the Senior Minister, the move is better than having the Fund sit ideal while critical areas of the economy lack the needed support to make … Read more
The government must set up a Senior High School Fund that will become a permanent and sustainable source of funding for the Akufo-Addo government’s Free Senior High School, pressure group Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has suggested. The group said the SHS Fund must be cast in the mould of the GETfund. According to the … Read more
The Minority in Parliament has said it will resist the use of the Ghana Heritage Fund to bankroll the Akufo-Addo government’s Free Senior High School programme scheduled to start in September this year. “We join the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians and civil society groups to register our strongest disapproval and objection to this idea. We … Read more
Using the Heritage Fund to bankroll the government’s Free Senior High School programme is apt, but the money must be paid back with interest after three years, pressure group Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) has said at a press conference in Accra on Thursday, 16 February. “This policy, in our opinion, has nothing to do … Read more
Ghana needs about $600 million per annum to fund and implement the Free Senior High School programme introduced by the Akufo-Addo government, Patrick Stephenson, Director of Research and Finance of policy think tank Imani Africa, has said. The Ghana Heritage Fund was established in 2011 by Section 10 (1) of the Petroleum Revenue Management Act, … Read more
The plan of the Akufo-Addo-led government to use the Heritage Fund to finance the Free Senior High School programme is apt, Dr Mark Assibey-Yeboah, Chairman of the Finance Committee of Parliament, has said. His comment follows criticisms levelled against the government for deciding to fund the programme with monies that have been set aside for … Read more
The plan by the Akufo-Addo-led government to use the Heritage Fund to finance the Free Senior High School programme is “shocking” and “untenable”, Fiifi Kwetey, a former Minister of Transport, has said. According to him, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), when it was in opposition, made it known that it would fiercely resist any … Read more