The Executive Director of Revenue Mobilisation Africa and a Fellow of Africa Education Watch, Geoffrey Kabutey, has argued that the failure to implement the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy within the country's financial means has led to the challenges currently facing the policy.
He believes that the overall implementation, particularly the free boarding aspect, was not financially prudent.
Kabutey pointed out that even wealthy nations like the United States and the United Kingdom do not provide free boarding under their free secondary education policies.
The tax expert was responding to a question on whether the current government should consider scrapping the free boarding aspect of the policy. "As a Fellow of Africa Education Watch and an advocate for education, I have always said that the United States and the United Kingdom-two far more developed countries-do not provide free boarding.
