NDC to decentralize school feeding and expand Free SHS access – Prof. Joshua Alabi

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Professor Joshua Alabi, Campaign Manager for John Dramani Mahama, announced that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will decentralize school feeding grants if elected, enabling headmasters and bursars to procure food from local markets to boost the economy and improve student nutrition.

Emphasizing that Free SHS is constitutionally mandated and not exclusive to the

Read full articlecurrent government, Prof. Alabi explained that Mahama’s administration laid the foundation with the Progressive Free SHS policy and the E-Block project, halted by the 2016 election loss.

He criticized the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) approach to Free SHS as rushed, leading to overcrowding and double-track issues.

Prof. Alabi assured that an NDC-led government would complete school infrastructure projects, decentralize food procurement, provide resources like textbooks, and extend Free SHS to private schools to relieve overcrowding and enhance educational quality.