2024 election: Vote for NPP as thanksgiving offering — NPP youth wing urge Free SHS beneficiaries

The Ashanti Regional Youth wing of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has urged beneficiaries of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy to use the 2024 parliamentary and presidential elections as a thanksgiving offering to the NPP.

The Ashanti Regional Youth Organiser for NPP Rafeal Sarfo Patrick who made the call appealed to all free SHS beneficiaries who are due to vote to help safeguard the policy by voting massively for the NPP come December 7.

Mr Patrick has therefore called on all first-time voters in the Ashanti Region and the country in general to register and get their names on the voter register to allow them vote on December 7.

He said this on Monday, May 6, 2024 when the party's youth wing engaged some first-time voters who are also beneficiaries of the free SHS policy on the need to vote for NPP.

The engagement which brought hundreds of youth in the region together also aimed at sanitizing them on the importance of participating in the limited voter registration exercise by the Electoral Commission (EC) which is set to commence on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.

The NPP Youth Organiser noted that a vote for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is a serious threat to the sustainability of the free SHS policy.

Some of the participants in an interview with this reporter commended the NPP government for the policy.

They described the free SHS policy as a pro-poor intervention which has helped millions of students attain secondary education.

They entreated their colleagues, especially those who have benefited from the Free SHS policy to make no mistake in voting for John Mahama, stressing that he only wants to come to power to downplay the relevance of the policy.