The Central Regional Youth Organiser of the NDC, Eric Yaw Dadson in a press statement has revealed that News of the vehement resistance by the NPP caucus in parliament to the proposal for the government to absorb the fees of Tertiary Educational Students due to hardship ha struck Ghanaians with deafening awe.

The statement disclosed that the decision has sent reverberating shivers down "our spines and kept us asking the rationale and motive behind their position to oppose such a beneficial proposition."

"The Parliament on Thursday, January 28, 2021, voted against a motion filed by the Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga asking the government to absorb fees of public tertiary institutions students and also support to private universities for the 2021 academic year and the motion was voted through a voice vote on the floor of Parliament," the statement revealed.

"We find the action by the NPP caucus in parliament as very unprincipled especially coming from a cohort of politicians who were recently seen dashing monies out to Ghanaians in the name of Covid-19 stimulus packages.

"Is the NPP caucus in parliament saying that the very parents whose businesses went down under the merciless knife of covid-19 have suddenly experienced a financial and economic rejuvenation and hence will not require government support in paying the fees of their wards to be in tertiary institutions?

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"Any response in the affirmative to the above question won't only be palpably jaundiced and actuated by malice at best but hypocritical at worse.

"Furthermore, one wonders if these MPs from the NPP stock were the same folks who recently milked exhaustively every single political capital from the free SHS programme.  

"How will one describe a bunch of people who invest state resources into ensuring unfettered access to Secondary education, citing the inability of parents to pay the fees of their wards in SHS as the apex of reasons for implementing Free SHS, yet stifles opportunities for same students to benefit from Tertiary Education when the opportunity to absorb their fees at the tertiary level, just as was done for them at the secondary level avails itself?

"While thanking the NDC parliamentary caucus for being sensitive to the plight of the Ghanaian parents and students, and pushing for such affirmative measures to be adopted by the government,  we bemoan the lack of candour and brevity on the part of the NPP MPs who inwardly supported the fees absorbing proposal but lacked the temerity to openly support this proposal. 

"We can only continue praying for the NDC parliamentary caucus to remain as formidable resolute as always while hoping posterity will confine these heartless and insensitive NPP  MPs to perpetual guilt. The greatest court in the world truly is conscience."

Abusuapanyin Kojo Ahinful, Central Regional Correspondent