AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT JOHN MAHAMA ON THE PLIGHT OF NORTHERN STUDENTS

IDDI MUHAYU-DEEN writes.... 

Mr. President, you recall that in your maiden publicized book, "My first coup de tat", you told us that you were compelled to leave the "luxurious Achimota school" to attend a Secondary School in the northern region (Ghanaso) because of financial concerns. This move allowed you to enjoy the northern scholarship and for that matter free education up north. By this, Mr. President, you are essentially acknowledging the fact that, we northerners are generally deprived and ought to be supported by the State in order to realize our educational right, at least, at the secondary level in the form of northern scholarship or feeding grants. 

Now, the inexplicable contrast of this narrative is that, Mr. President, you now have the opportunity to be our Head of State having campaigned to us (northerners) to vote for you because you were one of us and as such, had a better appreciation of our plight. What do we see today under your presidency? A complete departure from your own conviction... SADA has become an apology of a social intervention much to the chagrin of northerners. Again, the northern scholarship regime is at the verge of collapse under your presidency. As we speak, our junior brothers and sisters have been sacked from school because your government hasn't paid their feeding grant arrears for the past one year (ie 3 terms). 

Mr. President, what happens to your very principles? Are you still a northerner? Do you really care about the future of these 90,000+ students? But for this same free education, would you be president by now? Have you soon forgotten about the plight of your own people which you used as a trump card in 2012 for electoral advantage? Or was it politics as usual? Please these innocent students are losing a lot because of your loud inactions. Kindly do something and do it NOW for God and humanity. 

Thank you 

Your brother in service of country, 

 

Iddi Muhayu-Deen 

A Concerned Northerner/Student Activist

Former NUGS Secretary

(0245335197) 

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