We Will Continue To Pay Teacher And Nurses Trainee Allowance-Fmr. Prez. Mahama

Former President John Dramani Mahama says his government will not discontinue the fee of allowances to trainee instructors and nurses ought to he win the 2020 presidential elections.

The problem of allowances for trainees used to be a most important campaign problem prior to the 2016 popular elections.

The then NDC government in 2014 scrapped allowances of trainee teachers and nurses despite severe pressure on the government to rescind such decision.

Mahama at the time insisted that the decision allowed his authorities to amplify a variety of fitness and instructional infrastructure in the u . s . a . as well as dispose of the restrictions on admissions to the more than a few coaching institutions.

The NPP government, however, restored the allowances after prevailing the 2016 polls.

Mahama guarantees to preserve allowances

Speaking throughout one of his interactive digital conversations dubbed ‘Let’s discuss with JM’, Mahama said his authorities won’t cancel the allowances must he be elected as President in the upcoming elections.

“You know that it used to be a very quintessential issue in the run-up to the 2016 elections. What I had stated was once we have been going to migrate the health trainees and instructional trainees to the scholar loan scheme. Now what I have stated going up to the 2020 elections is that, we are going to let the reputation quo remain. It ability that we are going to proceed paying trainee allowances, however we will enhance the pupil mortgage and adapt it so that it serves the identical purpose as the allowances.”

“So we will expand the quantity beneath the Student Loan Trust [Fund] and then as a substitute of giving it to you as a lump sum, we will supply it to you at regular intervals so that you proceed to use it for the things you use it for. So, once we have done it and it’s eye-catching and it’s accurate enough for you, then we will now do the migration onto the student mortgage scheme. So for now, if I come to be the President on January 7, 2021, we will maintain the reputation quo. It skill that, we will proceed to pay the allowances and when we have expanded and made it attractive for all college students to go for it, then we will now do the migration onto the student mortgage scheme. So that’s my role on it as of now,” he said.

The scrapping of the allowances by means of the then Mahama government used to be met with stiff opposition from trainees and a section of the Ghanaian public.

Groups such as the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), the Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees Association (GNMTA) lambasted authorities over the issue.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the time promised to restore the allowances have to it win the 2016 time-honored elections.

John Mahama at the time strongly defended the go and even said it would be “better to lose on precept than win using falsehood. We’ll now not reverse the decision.”