NDC Was Not Against The Concepts Of One-Teacher, One Laptop Policy--Dr Clement Apaak
According to Dr. Apaak who doubles as the Deputy Ranking member of the Ghanaian Parliament's Education Committee, if the NPP government President Akufo-Addo can get the money resources to effectively implement the policy then it is fair and good.
Freeman Koryekpor 
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Builsa South Constituency in the Upper East Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr.Clement Abass Apaak, has stated that the NDC has not opposed the concepts and principles of the distributions of laptops to the teachers of the public schools under the One-Teacher, One Laptop Policy of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government under President Addo Dankwaa Akufo-Addo.
According to Dr. Apaak who doubles as the Deputy Ranking member of the Ghanaian Parliament's Education Committee, if the NPP government President Akufo-Addo can get the resources to effectively implement the policy then it is fair and good.
"But l want to raise other challenges to demonstrate that if the NPP government distributes the laptop to the teachers of the public schools today, that does not mean that the challenges facing the teachers in the education sector are going to be changed. Because the challenges facing them were not about getting the laptops," Dr Appaak stated.
He rhetorically asked that "if the pupils that the teachers are going to use the laptop to teach were denied food due to the current challenges facing the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), being charaterised by the situation when the school feeding caterers to lay down their tools over unpaid arrears, how could the pupils have peaceful mind to absorb what their teachers are teaching them using the labtops."
He maintained that if the children have not eaten well how they would have mind to learn, so what l am saying is that under the current conditions we have to priotise.
"And that the argument l am making is that while it is good policy to me, it is not an immediate needs and that they should not be priotised over all the other issues,"Dr. Apaak explained.
He further argued that if the NPP government should put in place good measures to solve these problems at ones,"for me l do not have any problem."
"We should have solved these problems if we should have been in power now, because l believe that some of these problems are unique to government programme," he noted.
Mincing no words, Dr Apaak pointed out that the current challenges facing the effective implementation of the school feeding programme resulting to the strike action of the school feeding caterers would be easily solved if the NDC government should have be in power.
Speaking on Angel Television on Monday May 29, 2023 monitored by Soireenews.com Dr. Apaak accused the NPP government under President Akufo-Addo for collapsing the programme which was adversely affecting the errollment of the beneficiary public schools in the country.
He pointed out that the NDC has the good education policies than the NPP government, saying that when the NDC wins power in the 2024 general elections it is going to bring out the one-student-one-tablet policy and that the NDC is going to bring on board the private schools to help in the implementation of the policy.
He mentioned that this is one of the several issues that we in the NDC want to do in our ways of addressing the implementation challenges of the educational sector in the country."
