Ghanaian media personalist and broadcast journalist, Afia Pokua, also known as Vim Lady, has called on Ghanaians to desist from blindly following politicians and their political parties.
According to her, it is about time electorates question and critique the feasibility of the promises and policies of politicians.
Explaining herself on Peace FM, Vim Lady suggested that politicians in recent times have only been recycling ideas without bringing up any transformational ideas.
She cited an example of how the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been on the neck of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) because the NDC believes that the NPP’s flagship policy, the Free Senior High School initiative, has a financial burden on the state and has called for a review of the policy.
However, the NDC has also hinted at plans to provide free education to first-year tertiary education students should they be voted to power.
Vim Lady questioned the possibility of the NDC’s policy, as she believes Ghana, with its current economic state, cannot sponsor that.
She said, “The NDC is saying they would provide free tuition to all first-year L100 students of the public universities across the country. For me, this is a build-up of the free SHS policy. If the NPP had not introduced free SHS, the NDC would not have initiated this policy.
“We shouldn’t just be following slogans; we must question their policies. The NDC has been complaining bitterly about how free SHS has impacted negatively on Ghana’s economy, to the extent that the party has been calling for a review of the policy.”
She continued, “Yet today, the NDC wants to implement free tuition for all level 100 students; where are they going to get the money for? That is a valid question, and we must ask."
Watch the interview here:
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