A social media uproar has erupted over the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) priorities, as an outspoken user criticises the government's focus on tablet procurement amid pressing education challenges.

On various social media platforms, the user known as X has condemned the NPP, highlighting the country's critical issues such as the lack of textbooks in basic schools, outstanding capitation grants, delayed school feeding programs, and unresolved buffer stocks debts.

In a tweet, the user pointed out the staggering cost of Gh¢3,400 per tablet, totaling Gh¢4.46 billion for 1.3 million students, juxtaposed against the aforementioned education sector challenges.

Gh¢3,400 a for a tablet to be procured by the Education Ministry for 1.3 million students,that's a total of Gh¢4.46 billion to be spentThis is happening when there're no textbooks for our basic schools,Capitation grant in arrears,School feeding in arrears,buffer stocks owes pic.twitter.com/hmHf2VsA7R— YAW EDUFUL (@yaw_eduful_) March 31, 2024

The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has announced that the first batch of 450,000 free student tablets fully funded through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) will be distributed next week.

According to him, the distribution of tablets has been categorized into three phases, with 450,000 to be distributed to 32 schools to ensure the effective distribution of a total of 1.3 million tablets.

President Akufo-Addo announced on March 25 the distribution of 1.3 million tablets to public Senior High School and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) students.