Hon Stephen Yakubu, the Upper East Regional Minister has described the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) as a comprehensive policy which reliefs parents of financial burdens in the country.
He said Ghanaian children now had access to Free Senior High School (Free SHS) education, a policy, according to him afforded parents the opportunity to save some money which hitherto was used to pay school fees.
The Minister was speaking at a brief official inauguration ceremony of the Bolgatanga Youth Parliament.
He said Youth Parliaments across the country were clear indications of the Government of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s commitment to enhance the frontiers of democracy in Ghana.
He said it was “An indication that the rights of the youth are being highly protected countrywide as enshrined in the 1992 Ghana Republican Constitution and the Children’s Act 1998.”
He urged all stakeholders to re-commit themselves to the concept of Youth Parliament and ensure it got to the next level, so that the State would provide the enabling policy and social environment for the youth.
Hon. Yakubu reminded the youth that their Parliament was modelled after the National Parliament to encourage and expose them to engage and discuss pertinent national issues completely devoid of politics.
In the Upper East Region, ten Municipalities and Districts, namely; the Bolgatanga, Bawku, Builsa North, Kassena-Nankana Municipalities, the Bawku West, Bongo, Bolgatanga East, Talensi, Builsa South and the Kassena-Nankana West Districts have representation in the Youth Parliament.
