FUEL PRICE HIKES, NUGS INSIST ON WHAT GOVERNMENT
MUST DO NOW.
The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) wishes
to state emphatically our stand on the current increase in the prices of fuel
in our country. The Union will for the purpose of political expediency not want
to dive into the intricacies of the merit or demerit of the increase since we
require a round table discussion with the N.P.A. and or P.U.R.C. to ascertain
the justifiability or not, of the increase.
First of all, NUGS is urgently requiring government
to increase proportionately (to the price increases due to the increase in fuel
prices and hence a correctly calculated inflation rate);
1. The feeding grants it gives
to Senior High Schools in Ghana to ensure a continuous provision of quality
meals for our dear students
2. The funds given to the
managers of the School feeding Program, in order to ensure the quality
provision of meals to the basic school pupil. Failure to increase this shall be
seen as a deliberate effort by government to starve the little children, or a deliberate
plan to stop the school feeding program.
3. The subvention given to
Public Universities, Teacher Training Colleges, and other levels of academia
that enjoys subvention from government; this must be done in order to avoid a
more than usual increase in school fees, which may cause several students to
drop out and hence reduce the literacy rate in our country which already has a
lot of illiterates due to dropping out of school.
4. Finally, if government cares
about our brothers and sisters in our prisons, then the amount spent on each
prisoner per day must also be increase in order to serve them at least a
balanced diet, which the law has not deprived them of, for our brothers and
sisters there are over-suffering.
The aforementioned are necessary to ensure that the
Ghanaian youth and student is well catered for. NUGS believes that our
listening president and his entourage of quality personnel will see these
issues as very necessary for the development of mother Ghana to the next level
of our development.
Thank you.
(Signed)
ORCHILL PRINCE
DAVID
NUGS REP. ON
THE NATIONAL YOUTH AUTHORITY BOARD.
0203244855
