A communications team member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof. Benedicta Yayra Fosu-Mensah, has called for stringent punishment against perpetrators who are using the Scholarship Secretariat to enrich themselves.
Speaking on Metro TV’s flagship program, Good Morning Ghana, Professor Benedicta said the uproar and call for investigation must not end on social media.
“This investigation should not just end on social media or people just coming out to express their views about the issue but heads must roll if there is enough evidence that students bought five thousand ponds scholarship for forty thousand and so on, these individuals should be punished. I am so surprised we have a report telling us about good governance today.
Prof. Benedicta Yayra Fosu-Mensah bemoaned the opaqueness and corrupt practices that bedeviled the Scholarship Secretariat.
The NDC communicator is alarmed that a country such as Ghana which has been recognized by the 2023 World Economics Governance Index report as one of the top ten best-governed nations in Africa, ranking fifth is engaged in a nepotic act at the Scholarship Secretariat.
“How can we say there is a good governance when a process that is supposed to be transparent and straightforward being so opaque? A process that the poor and the needy should benefit is rather benefiting the rich, and the affluent in the society. How can we say that this is social justice? This is definitely injustice,” she said
Conversations surrounding nepotism at the Scholarship Secretariat emerged following an investigative piece by the Fourth Estate, ‘Scholarship Bonanza’, named persons close to key government officials and party foot soldiers as beneficiaries of scholarships that it deems inappropriate.
By: Vanessa Edotom Boateng | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana
