Ministry of Education (MoE) has unveiled young Ghanaian actor, Abraham Attah, as an Ambassador for government’s flagship programme, Free Senior High School.
The sector Minister, Matthew Opoku Prempeh, unveiled the teen actor at a short ceremony at the ministry yesterday.
The Free SHS policy is one of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government’s flagship policy programmes that helped it win power in the December 2016 poll.
The party popularised the intended programme in the run-up to the 2012 election, but could not win power then to implement it.
Having successfully won the election in 2016, led by Nana Akufo-Addo, the party announced that it will fully roll out the programme this year.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in an address at Okuapeman School in the Eastern Region in February 2017, announced that the programme will commence from September 2017.
According to him, it will cover the full fees of students who attend public senior high schools across the country.
“By free SHS, we mean that in addition to tuition which is already free, there will be no admission fees, no library fees, no science centre fees, no computer lab fees, no examination fees, no utility fees; there will be free textbooks, free boarding, and free meals, and day students will get a meal at school for free,” President Akufo-Addo said.
Abraham Atta, 15, now resides in the USA for his career and high school education.
He made his feature film debut in ‘Beasts of No Nation’ (2015), playing a leading role of child soldier (Agu).
He was awarded the Marcello Mastroianni’s Best Young Actor Award at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.
In 2016, it was announced that he had been cast in the upcoming Marvel film Spider-Man: Homecoming.
It was unclear what Abraham Atta’s specific duties will be as the policy programme’s ambassador.
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