Kwasi Kwarteng, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) at the Ministry of Education, has clarified that the Ministry is not introducing new uniforms for all basic junior high schools in Ghana.

He said the initiative will target some selected model junior high schools.

According to the Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the government, as part of efforts to give basic education in Ghana a facelift, intends to repaint basic schools in blue and white and provide them with new uniforms.

Addressing students at a symposium dubbed ‘The Free SHS Story’ in Accra on Thursday, April 25, the Bosomtwe legislator noted, “We are switching to blue and white. We are painting all the schools to give it an attractive outlook. This is the transformation Ghana deserves and it is coming.”

According to Dr. Yaw Adutwum, this is part of “many transformational initiatives to revive basic education and make it attractive in the country.”

But Mr. Kwarteng said it’s not for all basic schools in the country, emphasising that the perspective within which the Minister made the remarks should be taken into consideration.

Kwasi Kwarteng spoke on TV3’s News Central programme on Friday, April 26.

“Broadly, the context within which a statement is made cannot be ignored,” he said.

“The ministry is not saying we are going to introduce uniforms across all schools in the country, no. We have model junior high schools that we are building. And as a way of boosting public confidence, not necessarily public confidence alone but of course we are introducing something new.