The Executive Secretary of the Constitution Review Commission Raymond Atuguba has stated that the NPP government's free SHS policy will collapse if steps are not taken to put in place laws to bind successive governments to continue the policy.
He indicated that there is a need to put in place a legal framework that will ensure the continuation of social and economic policies by various governments.
Speaking at a Constitutional Review Committee Sitting, the former executive secretary to Ex-President Mahama stated that there must be legislation which will be binding at some level to ensure that some important policies such as free SHS policies are not truncated whenever there is a change of government.
"As it is now there is the real likelihood that if NDC wins power in the 2020 elections and come to power they will cancel the free SHS policy, and that won't make sense" he noted.
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Meanwhile, the Minority in Parliament have predicted a collapse of the Senior High School (SHS) education in five years if the challenges bedeviling the free SHS policy are not fixed.
Contributing to a debate on the floor of parliament on the 2018 budget statement, former Deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, said the provision made for the policy in the 2018 budget is woefully inadequate.
“In 2018, we are talking about four terms, and yet you have provided for only ¢1.13 billion for free SHS; woefully inadequate. what is more even troubling is that the whole of Ghana was expecting that the Budget under education would come with a Marshal Plan; a rescue package for the disaster, which this country is grappling with," he said on the floor of Parliament.