Unpaid Feeding Grants: Pratt calls for heads to roll

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Lorgo Ligri 10 years ago

Kwesi, I can say without a sweat that Ghanaians are wide awake. It's only that our leaders find a way to dope us with sleeping pills. Our problem is that of following them like sheep when they wave juicy cobs of corn in front ...
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Kwesi, I can say without a sweat that Ghanaians are wide awake. It's only that our leaders find a way to dope us with sleeping pills. Our problem is that of following them like sheep when they wave juicy cobs of corn in front of us. Before we know it, we are mutton on their plates for their own consumption. Believe me, they eat it in grand style. We can only stop it if we are willing to reserve the trend. Let us do the eating and they do the following. In short, let them be accountable or vote them out.
Lorgo Ligri 10 years ago

sorry, it's reverse

sorry, it's reverse
John Morgan-Sogakope. 10 years ago

Party politics is not conducive for Ghana, let's follow the Nkrumah or Chinese model and get things down properly, at the end of the day party politics does not put food on our tables.

Party politics is not conducive for Ghana, let's follow the Nkrumah or Chinese model and get things down properly, at the end of the day party politics does not put food on our tables.
CARDINAL 10 years ago

The fact of the matter is that, the government cannot sustain this policy for ever especially now when there is no money to even pay government workers.

The government should scrap this policy and let the Northerners pay t ...
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The fact of the matter is that, the government cannot sustain this policy for ever especially now when there is no money to even pay government workers.

The government should scrap this policy and let the Northerners pay to feed their children at the boarding school if they don't want to enrolthem as day students.

In the Southern part of the country, those parents who cannot afford boarding fees enrol their children as day students to cut down on the cost of education and the Northerners should do the same.

We continue to have these problems because we don't have the courage to tell it as it is. This policy has outlived its usefulness. Is time the Northerners pay to educate their children like everybody else.
Asem wo maano 10 years ago

WHy should every simple thing be done in Accra? Don't we have responsible Ghanaians in the north to take care of school feeding in the north? How best could the problem in the be solved in Accra than a body in the north? Ghan ...
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WHy should every simple thing be done in Accra? Don't we have responsible Ghanaians in the north to take care of school feeding in the north? How best could the problem in the be solved in Accra than a body in the north? Ghana is too old to decentralize. Decentralization should be looked into.
KANIBA 10 years ago

What is Kwesi Pratt talking about? That is the mark of QUALITY EDUCATION Mahamah promised them.

What is Kwesi Pratt talking about? That is the mark of QUALITY EDUCATION Mahamah promised them.
Jeff, UK 10 years ago

Is anyone holding on to the money? Heads only rolled in England during the days of Henry VIII

Is anyone holding on to the money? Heads only rolled in England during the days of Henry VIII
Victor Damanka 10 years ago

Nothing works in Ghana because fraudsters work with impunity. When an official is caught embezzling money, he is transferred instead of facing the wrath of the law. nothing will work in this condition until we change.

Nothing works in Ghana because fraudsters work with impunity. When an official is caught embezzling money, he is transferred instead of facing the wrath of the law. nothing will work in this condition until we change.
Catapult. 10 years ago

Make up your mind because if 19 years of virtually no opposition yielded no results, 2009 to 2016, with an oil economy is not going to change anything. What we know has changed is the escalating, skyrocketing and galloping pe ...
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Make up your mind because if 19 years of virtually no opposition yielded no results, 2009 to 2016, with an oil economy is not going to change anything. What we know has changed is the escalating, skyrocketing and galloping penchant and affinity for everything corrupt-an attribute of the NDC party which has been aptly described severally as create, loot and share with impunity. Be bold and vote NDC out.
retired MP 10 years ago

Schools in the South are running because parents pay fees and the government adds some 30%. In the North they pay NOTHING! ALL the cash comes from Government! So if government is mismanaged the North suffers ...
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Schools in the South are running because parents pay fees and the government adds some 30%. In the North they pay NOTHING! ALL the cash comes from Government! So if government is mismanaged the North suffers. All who have received this FREE education and are now living in Accra and still stealing should please go to the aid of their brothers in the North and stop sending their children to schools in the South!! Am not sure KWAME NKRUMAH wanted the FREE education to be for EVER! Indeed the North has produced 2 presidents in this country that is the ultimate! maybe if the subsidies are stopped the schools will be open as those in Soutehrn Ghana as the parents will at least pay the 70%. The FEE FREE EDUCATION has ended up giving fish to the Northerners instead of teaching them how to FISH!!
Remove Indemnity Clause 10 years ago

Money which should be used for these students are in individual accounts and that I show Ghana is run.Incompetent and corrupt officials while parliamentarians are sleeping.

Money which should be used for these students are in individual accounts and that I show Ghana is run.Incompetent and corrupt officials while parliamentarians are sleeping.
Elizabeth Darko 10 years ago

Kwasi Pratt needs to be hanged.U are the most useless journalist ever seen. It is time u change ur habits or u will pay a prize in future.Somebody decided to offer us free education,u and ur cronies stood against that,now u t ...
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Kwasi Pratt needs to be hanged.U are the most useless journalist ever seen. It is time u change ur habits or u will pay a prize in future.Somebody decided to offer us free education,u and ur cronies stood against that,now u turn round to say a different thing. shame unto u
Northern Concern 10 years ago

To politicise the feeding program in high schools is exactly what Kwesi Pratt said we shouldnt do! I agree 100% with Kwesi on this matter!

To politicise the feeding program in high schools is exactly what Kwesi Pratt said we shouldnt do! I agree 100% with Kwesi on this matter!
CARDINAL 10 years ago

I bet you do but it is not right. What is so special about Northerners that they should live on government dough forever when we have more Northern Ministers. Northerners are not the poorest in society anymore and they should ...
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I bet you do but it is not right. What is so special about Northerners that they should live on government dough forever when we have more Northern Ministers. Northerners are not the poorest in society anymore and they should pay to feed tneir own children in school.
woman 10 years ago

and the president was gallivanting across the globe, claiming to be working for the nation. hopefully you learnt a lesson or two from the arabs while you wined (oops) and dined with them!

and the president was gallivanting across the globe, claiming to be working for the nation. hopefully you learnt a lesson or two from the arabs while you wined (oops) and dined with them!
Kweku Boateng Jnr. 10 years ago

Jane should go as minister for education. She has failed and she must be held responsible. Incompetency, corrupt senior journalists and civil servants who were poor yesterday and millionaire today are destroying the country ...
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Jane should go as minister for education. She has failed and she must be held responsible. Incompetency, corrupt senior journalists and civil servants who were poor yesterday and millionaire today are destroying the country. There is nothing innovative from KWESI. The minister must go!
Alligator Child 10 years ago

If feeding subsidy of 100% has not been received by the MOE from the MOF how do you blame the minister of Education. The Finance minister and the president are the ones who control cash in this country. If ...
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If feeding subsidy of 100% has not been received by the MOE from the MOF how do you blame the minister of Education. The Finance minister and the president are the ones who control cash in this country. If they want the money paid tomorrow morning IT WILL HAPPEN!!
Kweku Boateng Jnr. 10 years ago

Alligator, what is she doing about this case? Ministers must be held responsible for failures in their domain. This would not take place in the UK!
You know the political implication? Mahama is once more failing the north, p ...
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Alligator, what is she doing about this case? Ministers must be held responsible for failures in their domain. This would not take place in the UK!
You know the political implication? Mahama is once more failing the north, period!
Alligator Child 10 years ago

The minister for Education may choose to resign but it will change NOTHING. Anyway in Northern Ghana some children are secluded because their skin is like that of an alligator. This am told is due to some d ...
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The minister for Education may choose to resign but it will change NOTHING. Anyway in Northern Ghana some children are secluded because their skin is like that of an alligator. This am told is due to some defiencies not addressed at birth. They are living like "animals". It took a lady from the US to fly into Accra and go to the North to bring this to light. The health ministry did nothing about it even after the exposure. Now i hear Adebayo a philantropist Togolese footballer has taken up the matter. No heads rolled and life goes on!
Kweku Boateng Jnr. 10 years ago

So life goes on across Ghana where massive corruption leads to death and Alligator is happy. Just go round Old Accra and see the abject poverty we must say no and demand ACTION. This is our country. We should not defending mi ...
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So life goes on across Ghana where massive corruption leads to death and Alligator is happy. Just go round Old Accra and see the abject poverty we must say no and demand ACTION. This is our country. We should not defending ministers.
Minister must be held accountable is the import of my contribution. When British rail had problems under the Iron Lady and people died in train incidents in London, the minister resigned. This is democracy at work. Good eve Alligator Child.
CARDINAL 10 years ago

As we say in Ghana, "You are all beating about the bush"

Why blame the government? It is time the government scrap this policy and tell the Northerners the gravy train has left the station and they have to pay toeducate th ...
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As we say in Ghana, "You are all beating about the bush"

Why blame the government? It is time the government scrap this policy and tell the Northerners the gravy train has left the station and they have to pay toeducate their children in boarding schools if they want or they should enrol their children as day students as the poor folks in the southern part of Ghana do.
Amoah Bia. 10 years ago

I support Pratt 'heads must roll'. It is negligence to the highest standard. A big shame to policy makers.

I support Pratt 'heads must roll'. It is negligence to the highest standard. A big shame to policy makers.
Whatever 10 years ago

And to buttress Pratt's point, Why on earth should we be struggling to pay food for children, a country of such rich land? It's crazy. Our priorities isn't right. We don't want to do what we are supposed to do.

And to buttress Pratt's point, Why on earth should we be struggling to pay food for children, a country of such rich land? It's crazy. Our priorities isn't right. We don't want to do what we are supposed to do.
KGG 10 years ago

KWASI CALL A SPADE A SPADE. THIS NEVER HAPPENED IN KUFFOURS TIME. NDC HAS BEEN IN POWER FOR 5YEARS, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE, NOT NPP. NDC IS DISTROYING GHANA TELL THEM POINT BLANK. DONT BRING NPP INTO THIS. NDC IS A FAILURE THA ...
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KWASI CALL A SPADE A SPADE. THIS NEVER HAPPENED IN KUFFOURS TIME. NDC HAS BEEN IN POWER FOR 5YEARS, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE, NOT NPP. NDC IS DISTROYING GHANA TELL THEM POINT BLANK. DONT BRING NPP INTO THIS. NDC IS A FAILURE THAT IS WHY THEIR LEADER IS TRYING TO BALANCE THE EQUATION THAT KUFFOUR IS A THIEF, RAWLINGS SHOULD BOW HIS HEAD IN SHAME FOR KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE FOR CORRUPTION. NOW WHAT DOES HE SAY ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON? GHANA IS BROKE WITH OUR OIL, COCOA, GOLD AND ALL THE NATURAL RESOURCES THE ALMIGHTY GOD HAS BLESS US WITH? KWASI TELL THE TRUTH BECAUSE TRUTH CONQUERS.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

It is not heads that must roll. It is Mahama who is being irresponsible. This nonsense as Pratt is saying has been going on since I was a teacher in the '80s. If Mahama cannot help, then we are a failed nation. Did he not go ...
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It is not heads that must roll. It is Mahama who is being irresponsible. This nonsense as Pratt is saying has been going on since I was a teacher in the '80s. If Mahama cannot help, then we are a failed nation. Did he not go to school for free? Kutu provided even free mattresses for students in the Northern regions. When I taught at Ghana secondary school at Tamale, poor students at that time were even given free blankets and books. Now, blame NPP for all this mess. Yet they have money for party programs. Shame on NDC.
Paa Kodwo 10 years ago

IT GOES ON AND ON BECAUSE THOSE APPOINTED TO POSITIONS FOR EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT MACHINERY ARE NOT TRULY LOYALISTS BUT ANTAGONISTS AND ANTI ELEMENTS TO THE STATE OF GHANA.

THE PROBLEM IS NINETY(90%)PERCENT OF THE FULL FORC ...
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IT GOES ON AND ON BECAUSE THOSE APPOINTED TO POSITIONS FOR EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT MACHINERY ARE NOT TRULY LOYALISTS BUT ANTAGONISTS AND ANTI ELEMENTS TO THE STATE OF GHANA.

THE PROBLEM IS NINETY(90%)PERCENT OF THE FULL FORCE AT THE PUBLIC SECTOR DO NOT HAVE MIDDLE LEVEL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN THE ADMINSTRATION, OFFICE MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE AND TO EFFECT IMMEDIATE STATE MATTERS:

ALSO THE SO CALLED NOISY EDUCATED ARE STILL NOT PRODUCTIVE TO KNOW HOW TO BRING CHANGES,IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOpMENT IN THE COUNTRY.

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT SOMEBOGY WHO STARTED AT THE CIVIL SERVICE AS CLERICAL ASSISTANT THROUGH TO PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND DIRECTOR GENERALAS HANDED DOWN TO US BY THE DEPARTING COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION KNOW HOW A WELL STRUCTURED ADMINISTRATION WORKS.

TO THESE MEN AND WOMEN MANIPULATION AND EMBEZZLEMEMNT OF STATE FUNDS ARE OF MORE IMPORTANCE THAN THE FUTURE OF THE CHILDREN AT OUR JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY.

NATIONS AT THE GULF STATES, WHO WERE NOWHERE IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES WONDER WHY WE ARE STILL UNDERDEVELOPED AND EXTREME POOR INSPITE OF OUR ABUNDANCE MINERAL RESOURCES.

ARENT WE VERY HOPELESS AND SHAMEFUL PEOPLE ON EARTH.
Papa Yaw 10 years ago

Why

Why
sakora 10 years ago

half a loaf is better than none. "free education is for vote, quality education is our life" so they were crying in order to install him. let their parents pay for the feeding fees for quality education.

half a loaf is better than none. "free education is for vote, quality education is our life" so they were crying in order to install him. let their parents pay for the feeding fees for quality education.
better ghana agenda 10 years ago

NPP should not be drag into this equation because the party is at the moment Sleeping Beautifully,waiting for their chance. NDC on the other hand was voted in power to govern. i mean solve these self inflicted problems. why t ...
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NPP should not be drag into this equation because the party is at the moment Sleeping Beautifully,waiting for their chance. NDC on the other hand was voted in power to govern. i mean solve these self inflicted problems. why the change if the government can't solve the problem
jd, usa 10 years ago

stupid fool you supported the buffoonary. and now complaining. aboa

stupid fool you supported the buffoonary. and now complaining. aboa
AKWASI KWARTENG 10 years ago

ITS TIME, WE STOP THE BLAME GAME NDC NPP. GOVT SHOULD SCRUB THESE GRANT AND ALLOW PARENTS FOOT THESE BILL THEM SELVES

ITS TIME, WE STOP THE BLAME GAME NDC NPP. GOVT SHOULD SCRUB THESE GRANT AND ALLOW PARENTS FOOT THESE BILL THEM SELVES
Johnny USA 10 years ago

Prez Mahama find out who want to sabotage your gov and kick them out. Can you see that all school affected was from the north. ?Why the delay.?

Prez Mahama find out who want to sabotage your gov and kick them out. Can you see that all school affected was from the north. ?Why the delay.?
Serious Person 10 years ago

Kwesi, addressed the issues,it never happened during Kuffour's time. In fact, it is happening now, so lecture your fellow conspirators.That is quality education for.

Kwesi, addressed the issues,it never happened during Kuffour's time. In fact, it is happening now, so lecture your fellow conspirators.That is quality education for.

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