Ghana needs a single National Scholarships Commission not the deliberately designed scholarship secretariat under the Presidency- Kofi Asare
Mr. Kofi Asare, the executive director for African Education watch
The Executive Director at EDUWATCH, Mr. Kofi Asare suggests that Ghana needs a single National Scholarships Commission not the deliberately designed scholarship secretariat under the Presidency.
According to Kofi Asare, he said “What Ghana needs is a single National Scholarships Commission with a legal framework and mandate to manage all amorphous public and public-corporate scholarship schemes, and account to Parliament; the Auditor-General annually.”
He stated that the current scholarship scheme is deliberately designed as a secretariat under the Presidency without any legal framework.
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“The current one is deliberately designed as a secretariat under the Presidency with no legal framework, making it more vulnerable to political influence.”
He also made it clear that his outfit, EDUWATCH has been calling for the establishment of the single National Scholarship Commission for years but the has government refused to pay attention to their call.
“While Eduwatch and partners have been saying this for years; governments have refused to listen because, they see scholarships as rewards for party ‘boys’ and ‘girls’, ‘loyal’ student leaders and an incentive for high ranking politicians, their families and friends.”
Encouraging citizens to champion a good course come 2024 General Election, Mr. Asare said
“Citizens must take advantage of the Election 2024 season to push for manifesto commitments to legal and institutional reform of public scholarships in Ghana.”
“Giving up under the defeatist belief that things can’t change due to the entrenched political greed culture is never an option.
“Things can change; but only us can cause things to change positively,” he motivates citizens to rally for the right course.
Mr. Asare said he is pushing again for the establishment of the single National Scholarship Commission which will replace the existing scholarship scheme deliberately designed as a secretariat under the Presidency.
“This is one of the issues I submitted to the NPP’s Education Manifesto Committee at their meeting yesterday” April 3, 2024.
SOURCE: Coverghana.com.gh
