Free SHS - Educate Africa's implementation in 2017 was not adequate.

The government's main education initiative, Free Senior High School (Free SHS), was not adequate for implementation in 2017, according to the think tank Educate Africa Institute.

The institution claims that the timing of the introduction was the cause of the commendable policy's early implementation issues.

Mr. William Boadi, the institute's executive director, made these comments in response to the issue of some Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO) students using a restroom facility as a dorm in Tamale, Ghana, in the Northern Region.

Despite being a significant campaign promise, Mr. Boadi argued that the government should have delayed the implementation.

He claimed that the strategy should have been implemented by the government in 2020, but because to votes, it was rushed into place without the necessary facilities in secondary schools.

He claimed that by doing this, the government would have completed building new facilities to house the vast number of pupils enrolled in the several secondary schools spread around the nation.

On Monday, April 17, 2023, during an interview with Odehyeeba Kofi Essuman on the Ghana Yensom morning show on Accra 100.5 FM, Mr. Boadi brought up concerns with the implementation of the policy.

As part of the Free SHS program's implementation, nearly a million pupils have been accepted into senior high schools.

Mr. Michael Nsowah, a former director-general of the Ghana Education Service (GES), was accused by Mr. Boadi of claiming that the NPP would receive over one million votes if the Free SHS was implemented.

He claimed that the program itself is not the problem, only the implementation.

I've always believed that the government's Free SHS scheme is the greatest,' he declared.He urged Ghana to create a distinction between education and attending a school.

He claimed that education is the acquisition of knowledge and that a school is only a structure.

It is the cause of our inability to develop policies that will guarantee the expansion of education in the nation.

"It is only in Ghana that people are made Ministers of Education because they spent a lot of money on the campaign of the sitting president and not on their aptitude to bring about a change in the sector," he claimed.

To top it all off, he claimed that Ghana Education Service director-general positions are being given to individuals who have no background in education development.