The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) believes former president John Mahama has shot himself in the foot by choosing Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang as his running mate.
The National Executive Committee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Monday unanimously endorsed the nomination of the former vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Coast as Mahama’s vice presidential candidate ahead of the 2020 elections.
Speaking at the press conference, the Director of Communications of the NPP, Yaw Buaben Asamoah reminded Ghanaians about the scrapping of the teachers’ trainee allowances under her tenure as education minister, the signing of a petition for the release of the Montie 3 who threatened justices of the Supreme Court among other hardships teachers went through.
“Teachers were the hardest hit when Naana Opoku Agyemang was at the helm of affairs at the Education Ministry. Apart from their transportation allowances not being paid, Naana Opoku Agyemang also introduced the practice of teachers working for two years without being paid and being restricted to being paid only three months back pay, no matter how long they had worked. This inhumane treatment meted out to Ghanaian teachers at the time was the brainchild of Prof. Naana Opoku Agyemang, the then Minister for Education. The cold-hearted manner in which teachers were treated by Naana Opoku Agyemang cannot easily be forgotten.”
