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03.05.2015 Opinion

The Utility Cost Sharing Policy Must Not Hold

By Samuel Gyekye Mensah
The Utility Cost Sharing Policy Must Not Hold
03.05.2015 LISTEN

The recent, yet to be gazetted and implemented policy; The Utility Cost Sharing Policy has convulsed and shaken vehemently the hearts of tertiary students and even those yet to enjoy the opportunity to enrol in the various public tertiary institutions. This situation has caused a direct channelling effects on parents and guardians as they stand to be secondary victims of the yet-to-hold policy. The headline topic has had many cutting edges as some stories suggest the president, HE John Dramani Mahama has not expound on the policy, making it blurry and shadowy as to if the policy will hold or not. On the other hand, there are stories having instances where the incumbent minister of education, Prof. Jane Nana Opoku Agyemang stated there was no such policy to be implemented any moment soon while her deputy minister in charge of tertiary institution, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa stated otherwise.

This has made the situation even bitterer as students thinks their leaders are trying to trick and victimize them on their vulnerability. Upon counting on their immediate leaders, the various heads of the public tertiary institutions have taken no step on this issue thus taking no initiatives to help fight for justice for the students. This deed has alerted student on how their own fathers and mothers occupying such administrative offices have relinquished them on such a no-joke issue like this and even crippling the students-leader front in the bidding for review on the issue.

Ghana, of late has been a nation very hard to live in and even survive as inflation rates rise and unemployment matters heighten. Most students are struggling to survive in the tertiary institutions, in the context of them not having enough money to pay their fees, to cater for books to read and worryingly to feed themselves, making education and their stay on campuses a hell-like one.

Tertiary Students of Ghana think the government would not be fair and benevolent towards them should that policy operate since they already have gargantuan issue relating to majority of them not getting employed after their stay in school. The students, together with their parents and guardians are therefore crying and yelling the name of the President of the Republic of Ghana to use his position to alleviate their pain and misery by making sure the policy do not operate.

Interviewing few students, they plead the President exhibit the Mother Love in this issue so we all live happily.

BY: Samuel Gyekye Mensah (SUPREMO)
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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