President John Dramani Mahama has taken a delicate swipe at Members of Parliament from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), criticising their previous stance on a now-fulfilled coverage.
In line with him, NPP MPs wrongly criticised his administration’s 2014 initiative to provide sanitary pads to schoolgirls, just because they didn’t absolutely perceive the coverage’s intent and significance.
Talking on the launch of the Nationwide Sanitary Pad Distribution Programme in Accra on Thursday, 24 April, President Mahama recounted how the coverage got here into being throughout his earlier administration.
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He said:
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My Schooling Minister on the time was Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, who’s now my Vice-President. As Minister, she led negotiations with the World Financial institution on an settlement referred to as the Secondary Schooling Enchancment Programme, or SEIP.
SEIP had numerous elements, however I distinctly keep in mind one of many key features being scholarships for sensible however needy ladies, and assist for ladies in maths, schooling, and know-how. A element of that mortgage was devoted to a pilot programme to produce sanitary pads to ladies at school.
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President Mahama additional shared that the coverage revealed to him the unique challenges many schoolgirls face during menstruation.
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I recall that after we first tried to move it, the concept sounded uncommon to many. Those that had been in Parliament on the time would possibly keep in mind the opposition mockingly referred to it because the ‘pad mortgage’.
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An excessive amount of mockery adopted the concept that a authorities would safe a mortgage to offer sanitary pads to ladies—as a result of, on the time, the problem was not extensively understood, even by Members of Parliament.
He concluded by reaffirming his administration’s dedication to enhancing feminine schooling in Ghana and addressing the boundaries that proceed to have an effect on ladies’ educational development.
