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Captain Smart, a renowned broadcaster whose real name is Blessed Godsbrain Smart, has hit the government hard, stating that the reintroduction of the nursing and teacher trainee allowances was the worst policy ever to be implemented by the ruling NPP government.
According to him, the trainee allowances restoration by the government is the most useless policy, Ghana has ever had. In his view, the allowances were used to win political points and nothing else.
He made this known during his popular Maakye show on Onua TV, monitored Ghana Education News.
Prior to beginning negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for a bailout, the government already decided to eliminate these subsidies, he said.
“You didn’t need the IMF to tell you to cancel trainee allowance. Because we saw it from afar that there are certain useless political promises which will bring the government to a standstill and collapse it.
“I’m not a member of the NDC (National Democratic Congress) and I will never be a member of the NDC but the fact remains that, teacher trainee and nursing training allowances are part of the most useless allowances ever in this 4th Republic.
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“In this 4th Republic, if someone is in a nursing training college, and you give that person an allowance, and I am studying degree nursing at Legon (University of Ghana) and you don’t give me an allowance, what sense does this make. So, as I’m speaking to you now, the decision has already been taken to cancel the allowances. Trainees will no longer get the allowance,” he said in Twi.
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The teacher trainee and nursing training allowances are currently in arrears for many months as government is unable to pay. This has been worsened by the poor performing economy. With the Government now at the IMF seeking a bailout, the high possibility of cancelling the teacher trainee and nursing training allowances is real.
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