Majority Leader in parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has announced at a press briefing ahead of parliament resumption that a bill to make the free SHS policy mandatory for successive government is ready for passing in parliament.
The majority leader stated that the goal is to prevent any future government form attempting to abolish the policy, provided that the bill is not repealed for a justifiable reason.
“I think that this free SHS bill, if we consider as a house, what that means is that it becomes mandatory for government to implement this. Unless it is repealed, no government would have the right to say, I am not going to enforce free SHS because now there is a law. So, if you feel a citizen can apply to the court as his bona fide and the court would exact justice in that citizen’s favor.”
Afenyo-Markin further announced that the minister of education, Dr. Yaw Adutwum would present the bill in parliament, with hopes of the bill’s enactment.
“The Minister of Education will present the free SHS bill to Parliament. Chapter 5 of the Constitution provides some aspirational indicatives. Those are not justiciable, but once by policy of government, an aspiration as envisaged by the Constitution is put into action, then to make it justiciable, you enact.”
