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The Minority Leader of Parliament, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has criticized the government over its pledge to fund the admission fees for all first-year students in the public tertiary institutions in Ghana.
During the parliamentary session for approving ministerial nominees on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, Afenyo-Markin raised concerns about the government’s dedication to this pledge, emphasizing problems with how it is being executed.
“The Honourable Haruna Iddrisu has told us that students who have paid their admission fees already will have the same refunded to them,” Afenyo-Markin pointed out.
“It begs the question: why didn’t the government ask the universities not to demand the fees from the students since the state will pay for them in the coming months?”
Afenyo-Markin expanded on the difficulties this poses for families, particularly those finding it hard to afford the financial requirements of higher education.
“Mr. Speaker, my point of digression with the Education Minister nominee has to do with the fact that not every student or parent can raise the admission fees and would have hoped that this policy of the state paying the fees of first-year students would have materialized so that they could take advantage of it,” he added.
“So, if a student or parent maybe is unable to raise the admission fee, it simply means that that student cannot go to school because of his or her inability to raise the admission fee. It is upon this that we on this side are raising eyebrows about the commitment of the government to fulfill this pledge,” he emphasized.
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