Former President John Dramani Mahama has dismissed claims that he will cancel free senior high school programme if he becomes president.He described such comments as political gimmicks."There is no truth in that, it is just a political gimmick free SHS has come to stay," the presidential candidate of the Nationa Democratic Congress (NDC) said when he was addressing the clergy in Kumasi on Monday, November 11.The New Patriotic Party had accused the NDC and John Mahama of plotting to cancel the free SHS programme.For instance, Majority Leader Alexander Afennyo-Markin said that the National Democratic Congress were fighting the passage of the Free Senior High School Bill with their conduct in parliament leading to the indefinite adjournment of the House.Afenyo-Markin says that the opposition lawmakers have targeted the Free SHS Bill.They are conspiring with Mr Speaker to get the free SHS bill not passed, their main target is the free SHS Bill," he said at a press conference in Parliament on Thursday, November 7.Afenyo-Markin further accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of engaging in lawlessness by occupying the side of the Majority in the House again during proceedings on Thursday, November 7.He also accused the Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin of supervising lawlessness by the NDC lawmakers.Addressing a press conference in Parliament on Thursday, November 7, he said "The speaker supervised chaos …clearly the NDC is on a war path, they want confusion and they want lawlessness in this country and all these are being supervised by Mr.
Speaker."The speaker is setting the country on fire, we were disappointed with his non-reconciliatory manner during his press conference.
We call on him to demonstrate statesmanship, we want him to know that although we were not happy on the day he was elected, it wasn't the NDC that put him there but members of our side.
Mr Speaker is hurting democracy…how can the speaker say he respects the constitution but he will not subject himself to the dictate of the constitution."Speaker Alban Bagbin adjourned Parliament indefinitely for the second time.