After two days of voting, Ghana has again confirmed to the world that, indeed Ghanaians are very peaceful and a shining example to the rest on the African continent.
Using a bio-metric for the first time, many problems were anticipated. Though there were pockets of issues here and there, the elections went on peaceful.
It wasn’t as free and fair as we all thought but we can all praise ourselves because we didn’t end up in civil war like it happened in Rwanda, Kenya, Liberia and Ivory Coast.
Elections offer Ghanaians the opportunity to choose who they want to lead them. Thank to Akufo-Addo and the NPP, the 2012 election was very much centred around education.
Even though there were several policies promised, I was very happy with the NPP’s educational policy simply because I know that, many Ghanaian need Nana Addo’s ‘free SHS’ education policy since the stats of illiterates in the Ghanaian, especially in the coastal area is staggering. Not even funny at all.
The results as announced by the Chairman of the Electoral Commission means, Ghanaians have rejected the ‘free SHS’ education policy.
Very strangely, Ghanaians in the well-to-do areas with higher incomes voted massively to enable the free SHS to be brought to Ghanaians, as those in the typical coastal communities voted for the government which is against free education now.
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Now that the elections are over and winners have been declared. If out of pity/goodwill you help pay for the school fees of 2 of the 5 children of your close neighbor so they can have some education and live meaningful life when they grow up, would you continue to do so if this same neighbor voted against the Free SHS policy?.
Now that your neighbor supported and voted for the people who were against the free education policy and they have won, would you still consider paying and sponsoring his or her children’s education?
This is exactly what I think Chris-Vincent’s Mother is upset about…Read what his Mom said about her neighbor from HERE.
Yɛwo wo sɛ bɛkum ɔsono a, wompepre ɛkɔkum kusie ɛnkɔpra
Im not into politics but SHS is already free, what we pay is accommodation, food and books. The main problem in the education system now is people not getting into SHS because of the 4 years without extra buildings and facilities to support it. I hope the new Government help expand classrooms to avoid kids staying at home after JHS.
truthfully, i feel NPP should have been given the opportunity to just try for Ghanaians to see whether indeed they can implement free SHS…..i have always voted for them and would vote again even if they dont add free SHS anymore….As a strong member of NPP with a party membership card, why on earth would i continue to pay fees for such a neighbor whom i know very well voted against free SHS??? unless she an NPP member but if i know very well that she belongs to a different party, that will be the end…am sure she can find someone in her party to help her out….am very emotional about certain things and this is one of them….
@Eaglebabe, my dear, give me HIGH 5……….xx
@Akua Mansah, Hiiiigggghhhh Five!!!! Am very surprised at the turnout of the results, but God knows best!! i just pray he comforts Akuffo Addo and give him a strong heart to go through this hard time….my kid sis of 7 years cried her eyes out yesterday after the (so called winner) was declared.
@Eaglebabe, ooooohhhh too sad…. :'( tell lil sis that she shouldn’t worry wai………. not all of US are matured to understand Nana’s VISION. We are in Ghana and we shall all witness w@ shall become of their EEDEY BE K3K3………xx
@Eaglebabe, i’m still trying to recover from this so-called defeat. but i think u were right on point eaglebabe. as for me, i’ve decided not to help the needy in our society any longer. they were the very ones that were chanting e dey beeee k3k3. let’s see how it’s gonna beeee k3k3 for them in these coming days.
@jojo, Can u believe that a woman had her child strapped at her back, the poor child was falling off and someone prompted the mother who was busy chanting “ede beeee keke”…she said even if her child falls down, ede beee keke…then i realized the sort of people who voted against NPP….
They shd go to Jm dey be keke for their fees, gas, health insurance, housing and everything
@Ball so hard miss dior, i more than support u my dear!
so all the “gidigidi” and vim i saw on tv showing ppl queuing and sleeping a day b4 the voting was all waste of time to vote for same rubbish government? if thts the case,they would have just relax n voted normal coz the same energy should have given nana one touch victory. Shame on thos who voted with empty heads not thinkin about the future,shame on those who just forgot that they r the loosers and still suffer for BASIC NEEDS,shame on those who forgot so soon of the wayome case and how that money could have been used to improve their roads,electricity and water,shame on the illiterates who will not want to upgrade themselves and know they will forever be manipulated with gifts during elections,shame on those who vote tribally,shame on those who queued up to cause all those massive rejected ballot numbers. Watching on tv now how someone has been knocked down in an accident coz of this yawa victory saddens me,and with all those running up n down the road happy and jubilating,see u tomorrow on the same road selling kenkey,icewater,PK,atadwe etc. THE COUNTRY IS JUST DRAWN BACK 20YRS from today’s results. SHAME ONCE AGAIN AND I HOPE I DONT COME ACROSS ANYONE COMPLAIN THAT THE COUNTRY IS HARD COZ I HAVE NO CHOICE THAN TO ………… THE PERSON..LOL
@mapk, Well said, it is sad to see those who go through severe poverty and yet when given the opportunity to improve themselves they brush it aside. Trust me in no time they will be the same people who will be complaining of hardship. Should someone come to me complaining and knowing they voted NDC into power all i will say is THUNDER FIRE YOUR MOUTH.
NEVER. GO TO EDE BEE KEKE FOR UR SCHOOL FEES
hmmm, i have stopped giving out all those. They should fend for themselves.period
The common sense in me will stop paying and kick ur ignorant behind to the moon and do it all over again but the christianity in me will say otherwise cos first of all that person is a human being and all humans deserve to be helped(remember the prodigal son)
we need education in Ghana paaaa but obviously they cant c from where others c it..clearly ndc cheated n its a pity nothing can b doe abt it…help pay for an NDC child’s fees,??hell no i wont..they enjoy struggling n crying for just a horrible election outcome..some Ghanaians r just addicted to poverty n they cannot c the light which is shameful..
Umm has this site suddenly become a political platform? This is what brings division…especially coming from the blogger who is being so BIAS…that’s not cool…nobody is saying free education is not good…to execute such promise in 2013 just seemed unrealistic and desparable strategic to some Ghanaians…free shs is good, but to execute we need the right infrastructures…and plus free shs was focused pn as the only thing npp has for ghana for the next four years…not everybody will agree with one political party or the other…the problem with npp is that they think everybody in ghana feel for them when that is sooo false…if npp had won, I wouldn’t complain because I would’ve believed that Ghanaians voted for them…but npp can’t seem to get that for the other party…so the best way to attack is by calling NDC cheaters…do u think kuffour won the election by default when he was an incumbent in 2004? Please stop being biased because this is disturbing the peace of some Ghanaians…lets all be one Ghanaian ad stop the separation because one belong to another party and not ur favored one…
@lilyy, Well said, it is sad to see those who go through severe poverty and yet when given the opportunity to improve themselves they brush it aside. Trust me in no time they will be the same people who will be complaining of hardship. Should someone come to me complaining and knowing they voted NDC into power all i will say is THUNDER FIRE YOUR MOUTH.
@lilyy, if you think this issue is disturbing then i think u shd have simply advised US not to take sides. If the vision is not now then WHEN?…………….After the discovery of OIL then we still have a low GDP, high INFLATION, giving WOYOME this huge MONEY and yet we go out to BORROW. GET UR FACTS RIGHT GIRL…….BLOCKHEADED………MONNIM HWE NSO MU SURE3 A, NA TALK BY HEART……..WHAT DO KNOW?
@Akua Mansah, it takes another blockheaded to know one Hun…pls do u know the % the country is even getting from the oil? revenue… Pls I’m also Ghanaian and also care for the country…u dnt know what I know…thanx
@lilyy, are really sure you know the state of ECONOMY?…………let me CORRECT you: IT RATHER TAKES A HIGHER INTUITIONED INTELLECTUAL TO EXPOSE A BLOCKHEADED LIKE YOU AND YOUR VERY SELF! WHICH GOVERNMENT REGIME WAS OUR OIL FOUNDED? AND WHY ARE WE GHANAIANS HAVING THAT MARGINAL % BASED ON THE CONTRACT WE SIGNED? AND WHY DID WE SELL TOR? AND WHY THE ACQUITTION OF OUR STATE OWNED COMPANIES LIKE STC? WE DONT HAVE THE FUTURE GENERATION AT HEART; AND IF WE HAD, WE WOULDN’T SIT AND WATCH OUR INDIGENIOUS PROPERTIES COLLAPSE………THAT IS WHY WE NEED TO EDUCATE OUR FUTURE LEADERS SO THAT EVEN THE LESS PRIVELEDGED CAN GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE EDUCATED NOT TO REPEAT OUR MISTAKES DUE TO SELFISHNESS AND POWER DRUNK!………………..YOU NAA YOU NEED EDUCATION YOURSELF!
@lilyy, MY DEAR, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER…………….I CAN SEE S3 W’AB)N PAA! U DON’T WANT FREE EDUCATION BUT U WANT FREE LAPTOPS TO DO SAKAWA WITH!
@Akua Mansah, If knowledge is power, take it, eat it and shove it down ur throat…for someone who is intellectual l, u sure know how to respect other ppl’s views…I didn’t think u would actually come back here and give me the percentage of the oil revenue that Ghanaians are benefiting from…it also appear to me that u dnt follow the news because STC has not collapsed…the fact that u’ve been given a platform on this medium to run ur mouth doesn’t shake me as ur EDUCATED…I laugh to that…if indeed I need education, and someone is promising it FREE for me, why then will I go against that and vote for something else? Clearly the ones that are supporting it are the ones who need it right???? Don’t come back here and insult me because I didn’t insult anyone…if u think u’re educated, then u need to know that there is something else that goes along with it (MATURITY)…I dnt deal with immatures…u dnt know me to tell me I want free laptop…in this day and age, some of us are off that laptop jump off…we use tabs now…and plus my ass dnt even live in gh…so when u’re done spending ur 1hour given time in the cafe, GO GET UR LIFE….good day
@lilyy, KWA KWA KWA …………………….lmfao the answer to a FOOL is SILENCE!!! I wont waste my TIME (as TIME=MONEY) on daft people like YOU…………..Good day Ma’am A WHOLE ME……………INTERNET CAFE………..EIBAAD)MI!
Oops, this comment is under a wrong post…lol..pls disregard
@lilyy, it seems there is some technicalities in the air…oh well
Well said, it is sad to see those who go through severe poverty and yet when given the opportunity to improve themselves they brush it aside. Trust me in no time they will be the same people who will be complaining of hardship. Should someone come to me complaining and knowing they voted NDC into power all i will say is THUNDER FIRE YOUR MOUTH.
@SHEEHOO, comment under wrong post, sorry
No way i will neva do such a thin… he or she must go to de E dey be keke 4 school fees… over my livin body
Maame is a big lie. It not free koraa may be dde ndc paid for u dea. But for meam a day student & i pay wai. So pls don’t tell ppl of Ghana lies that shs is alreasy free.
Chris apoo tanaaa
How on earth will i do such a tin. Apooo
He or she should go 2 mahama tani to pay 4 them
@nana, good one bro
p)mp) mm) me to, lol, Their children shld dropout then
Isn’t it sad……if those living in Regimanuel, East Legon, Nyaniba, and all the residential areas who have their kids studying abroad, and can afford anything in this world voted for Free SHS because they know the importance on education…. and those who need it the most: nima,maamobi,nungua, chorkor etc voted against it….then u should know which part of the world we find ourselves in.
One question i will ask them is i get the opportunity would be:::so if your Kids also become MPs and Presidents, ino good give you??? If your kids also have the opportunity to be very respected people in society, ino good give u? why should u always be at their so called receiving end…receiving T-shirts and a bag of rice, DEODORANT? u people are just pathetic!!!!!
U people will continue to be fishermen, fishmongers, kenkey makers and sellers, rubbish collectors and shiiiit removers…this is not a curse, you signed up for it!!!!!!!
@mel, they’ll die out of illiteracy
This is really serious!! I was out purchasing bread and the bread-seller told me that the free education isnt possible!! So I asked her that did she believe it when health was going to be free but now we are enjoying the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The NHIS covers the whole country so how come only SHS school fees cannot be covered. Afterall the nationwide population is larger than the number of students in SHS. I feel the NPP should have been voted into power but the NKROASEFUO NDC party was elected by the majority who lack education This issue be serious waa!!
@zena, dont waste your breath on them, some Ghanaians are just too impossible…vote for the future of your child but they rather voted against….thank God some of us can afford to cater for our kids…
an uneducated woman wearing an NDC t-shirt with her child strapped at her back chanting “ede beee keke” was prompted by someone that her poor child is falling off because the cloth had become loose…she replied that even if the baby falls down, “ede bee keke”…clearly you can see the kind of people who support NDC…that is why the NDC doesnt want Ghanaians to be educated….am sure if most of them get educated now, by 20 years time, the illiteracy rate would have reduced but the residents of Chorkor, nima, maamobi, nungua, upper west, upper East, Volta and most villagers chose to vote NDC into power…
@Eaglebabe, THEY HAVE NO FORESIGHT THATS WHY?
@Eaglebabe, IF WE DON’T EDUCATE THESE LESS PRIVELEDGED KIDS, THEY WILL GROW TO BECOME SOCIAL MISFITS………THE LADIES: TRADING THEIR BODIES WITH MONEY – PROSTITUITION AND THEIR MEN: ARMED ROBBERY AND SAKAWA BREAKING INTO OUR HOMES AND YET THEY DON’T FACTOR ALL THESE BEFORE VOTING! ABI WE ARE ALL HERE………MY DEAR, DON’T WORRY YOURSELF @ ALL……NOW I DON’T BOTHER MYSELF ARGUING BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS IN PROVERBS THAT THE ANSWER TO A FOOL IS SILENCE BUT I HAVE TOLD MY FAMILY THAT I AM GOING TO OBTAIN NDC MEMBERSHIP CARD AND CHOP WITH THEM GHANA’S MONEY BECAUSE “PAPA NY3 HW33 A, B)NE NSO 3NY3 HW33”! AM LOOKING SHARPPPPPPP…………MAKE HAY WHEN THE SUN SHINES!……….xx
@Akua Mansah, hahahahaaaa, maybe i should also obtain NDC membership card oooo, i for shine my eyes toooo
@Eaglebabe, NA SOO MY DEAR SISTER………….EGOOO BEEE K3K3………xx
@Akua Mansah, I’m glad u’ve decided not to reply again because yes indeed an answer to a BIGGER FOOL is def. SILENCE…good day
Trassaco, Airport Residential and East Legon voted for free SHS. However Chorkor, Nima and Ashaiman voted for ede beee k3k3……. thats the irony of it.