Member of Parliament for Bolgantanga Central, Isaac Adongo
The Member of Parliament for Bolgantanga Central, Isaac Adongo, has defended the government’s decision to uncap the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) in the 2025 Budget and Economic Policy.
Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, March 16, 2025, he argued that the move would enhance the administration of the education sector by facilitating infrastructure expansion.
He lambasted the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government for failing to provide adequate textbooks to students in senior high schools.
“We were in this country when the NPP, instead of providing textbooks, will go and buy past questions for our children. The minister was giving our children past questions.
“We will provide enough textbooks and not past questions, and you (NPP) should be praising us for that, you capped the GETFUND, today you’re asking the minister how much he will make from the uncapping. You’re not even ashamed, you were rather centralising GETFUND money and sending it to the government to construct a hole called National Cathedral,” he noted.
During the presentation of the 2025 Budget Statement and Economic Policy in Parliament on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, the finance minister, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson announced that the government is uncapping the GETFund to ensure sustainable funding for free secondary education.
“Mr. Speaker, the overarching concern about free secondary education has been its quality and the absence of a dedicated source of funding. President John Mahama has resolved the funding challenge by uncapping the GETFund. This makes available dedicated funds for the full financing of free secondary education and free tertiary education for Persons with Disability (PWDs),” he stated.
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