The Executive Director of Revenue Mobilisation Africa and a Fellow of Africa Education Watch 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 confronting the policy.
Geoffrey Kabutey believes that the overall implementation, particularly the free boarding aspect, was not financially prudent.
He indicated that even the United States and the United Kingdom, which are classified as wealthy nations, do not offer 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 with Africa Education Watch and an advocate for education, I have always maintained that the United States and the United Kingdom, two wealthy countries, do not provide free boarding. "These two countries, which are far more developed than we are, provide free day education.
