The Ashanti Regional Youth wing of the governing New Patriotic Party NPP has urged beneficiaries of Free Senior High School (SHS) policy to use the 2024 parliamentary and presidential elections as a thanks giving service for the NPP
The Ashanti Regional Youth Organiser for NPP Rafeal Sarfo Patrick who made the call appealed to all free SHS beneficiaries who are due to vote to help safeguard the policy by voting massively for the NPP come December polls
Mr Patrick has therefore called on all first time voters in the Ashanti Region and the country at large to register and get their names on the voter register to afford them the opportunity to vote during 2024 polls
He said this on Monday May 6, 2024 when the party’s youth wing engage some first time voters who are also beneficiaries of the free SHS policy on the need to vote for NPP
The engagement which brought hundreds of youth in the region together also aimed at sanitizing them on the importance of participating in the limited voter registration exercise by the Electoral Commission of Ghana EC which is set to commence on Tuesday May 7, 2024.
The NPP Youth Organiser however called on Ghanaians electorates to reject any flagbearer who does not support the free SHS policy
He noted that, a vote for the opposition National Democratic Congress NDC is a serious threat to the sustainability of the policy.
Some of the participants in an interview with OTEC News Reporter Jacob Agyenim Boateng commended the NPP government for the policy
They described the free SHS policy as a pro-poor intervention which has helped millions of students attain former education.
They entreated their colleague’s youth, especially those who have benefited from the Free SHS policy to make no mistake in voting for John Mahama, stressing that he only wants to come to power to downplay the relevance of the policy.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/Jacob Agyenim Boateng
