'1 student, 1 tablets' policy only meant to hoodwink Ghanaians - Clement Apaak - MyJoyOnline

Member of Parliament for Builsa South constituency, Dr Clement Apaak, says the government is using the ‘1 student, 1 tablet’ policy to hoodwink Ghanaians into believing that they are fulfilling their manifesto promises.

According to him, the government has introduced this policy to create the impression to Ghanaians that they have fulfilled some of their promises, thereby indicating that they deserve another chance to lead the country.

Speaking in an interview with JoyNews, he stated; “In fact in our 2020 manifesto on Page 70 under education, we indicated that we will provide free tablets with educational content to teachers and students to enhance teaching and learning and we made that proposal on the back of the experiences from Covid and how in the wake of the pandemic, teaching and learning was grounded." 

He noted that the current government outlined in their 2020 Manifesto their intention to focus on ICT and distribute tablets to Junior High School and Secondary School students.

“The current government in its manifesto for 2020 on Page 57, under promises, promise number 1,2,3 to do with ICT, indicated to Ghanaians that discussions were ongoing towards the distribution of tablets to Junior High School and Secondary School Students, that was the manifesto promise," he said on Tuesday, March 26.

Clement emphasizes that Minority parliamentarians are revisiting the NPP's manifesto promise, questioning the timing of the policy rollout, and seeking clarity on the implementation policy document for what the president launched the project.

“They have decided to forget about the other side of the promise which is to provide tablets to Junior High School and they are focusing on Senior High School students,” he said.