MInister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has fired back at detractors and argued his son is not old enough to be a beneficiary of government’s flagship Free Senior High School programme.
His comment follows criticism that he has enrolled his son in a private senior high school, indicating his lack of confidence in government’s Free SHS programme.
Addressing journalists in Accra, Dr Adutwum expressed disappointment at how politics is being used to drag his child into the free SHS debate.
He said, “I think politics has taken a new low. My son should never be a part of my political career and secondly I don’t have a son who is old enough to be in a Senior High School.”
“So suffice it to say that I have no further comment on that, my son is not old enough to be in the Senior High School”.
He added: “We have the best Senior High Schools in this country in the public sector, so if somebody says his son is not going to the best Senior High Schools in this country, I don’t know how that is news. My son is not old enough to be in the Senior High School.”
Meanwhile, Dr Adutwum said government has so far spent over GHS7 billion on the implementation of its flagship Free Senior High School programme since 2017.