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Spouses, children received £8,160 and health benefit - Zita 'exposes' alleged scholarship scandal

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  • Essandoh 12 hours ago

    Jail them all

  • Mary 12 hours ago

    So you see? Toilet self is far far far better than cola nut chewing Bawumia

  • Rex 12 hours ago

    Those thieves,the least said about them the better.

  • Kay 10 hours ago

    Diversionary Tactics by babies with sharp teeth. I'm told the Gonja man from Bole Bamboi has instructed them to double their acts to take off the minds of ignorant Ghanaians from his Criminal deeds with AKSA Contracts

  • Burkina 10 hours ago

    As for this Zita hmmm

  • SO THE NDC WAS STORING SOME OF THESE SCANDALS IN THE FRIDGE. SCHOLARSHIP ROT AND US EMBASSY LOOT 10 hours ago

    THEY'LL GO AND BRING THEM OUT WHEN IT'S TIME TO DIVERT PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.

    SEDINA WALKING FREE AND THE CLOSE RELATIVE IN THE AKSA DEAL ON MY MIND

    NDC YOU DO ALL

  • Northern Boy 9 hours ago

    But if that rot wasn't there there would be nothing for the NDC to store in the fridge, and then bring it out any time they want to divert attention. And, no body stopped npp government from bringing out ndc misdeeds.

  • TRUTH 9 hours ago

    Of course Sedinam talking free does not look good on NDC and Ghana but have you considered, the NPP were going after small money's compared to the huge sums they were stealing from the state themselves.

    At least, NPP coul ...
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  • £35 MILLION DEBT FOR SCHOLARSHIP 5 hours ago

    Of course Sedinam walking free...

  • AKABENEZER 5 hours ago

    I can assure you that this package is so juicy, it is not going to the brightest minds who are destitute. It is going to the relatives of the big wigs and the well connected. This corrupt program should be scrapped because it ...
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  • SAEED OSMAN 9 hours ago

    Burkina, can you take your medication?

  • DotCom 8 hours ago

    Any intelligent persons who reads this story and don't get upset don't really love their country, and those who are campaigning for the government to stop its investigations and prosecution of these suspects have brains small ...
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  • POURFENDEUR DE LA CORRUPTION/ANTI CORRUPTION 6 hours ago

    Srem Sai, the deputy attorney general was given scholarship by Akuffo-Addo. Was his spouse and children also sponsored by the same scholarship scheme? This is how the NDC can lie to divert the immense rot and corruption scand ...
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  • POURFENDEUR DE LA CORRUPTION/ANTI CORRUPTION 6 hours ago

    Srem Sai, the deputy attorney general was given scholarship by Akuffo-Addo. Was his spouse and children also sponsored by the same scholarship scheme? This is how the NDC can lie to divert the immense rot and corruption scand ...
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  • £35 MILLION DEBT FOR SCHOLARSHIP 4 hours ago

    Let's assume Stem Sai benefitted.

    Are you daft to know if a government is irresponsible to this extent, even an 80 year old will not refuse such a juicy offer.

    Now thanks to this misrule from NPP, Ghana has nearly £3 ...
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  • TRUTH 9 hours ago

    Diversionary indeed!

    Well Nana Addo was given basic free SHS to Ghanaians, they were busy and quietly spending lots of money on their selected party members to live and obtain high education in western countries so they ca ...
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  • Lucky 7 hours ago

    Stop displaying your stupidity here.

  • SHAOLIN 4 hours ago

    CAN THESE BE MARE ACCUSATIONS BY THE HONORABLE LADY.?
    YOU SAY ORAL IS DEAD,. BUT YOU DEMONSTRATE WHEN AN ARREST IS MADE.
    NPP SHOULD PREPARE FOR MORE DEMONSTRATIONS BECAUSE ORAL HAS JUST STARTED. EVERY DIME LOOTED MUST SUREL ...
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  • Ubaida 10 hours ago

    You are wasting your breath. Don't forget you are dealing with Ghanaians.

  • Nee 9 hours ago

    Just use your common sense

  • Efo Kofi 7 hours ago

    Mary Bawumia is better than all your useless foolish family put together foolish useless thing KWAASHIAA

  • Abbey 11 hours ago

    The saddest and most disgusting one was that National service woman , Gifty Oware and her Lawyer Husband. After allegedly taking that huge service money, her husband was awarded scholarships to study in UK and government were ...
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  • Nana 10 hours ago

    EOCO & BNI shd arrest those involved for stealing our monies from National Scholarship Secretariat.. As for AKSA deal the NDC shd leave it for Dr Bawumia , we will support NPP to arrest Mr Dramani Mahama and prosecute him and ...
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  • Okumaning 10 hours ago

    After all these intentional milking the state and they're call for investigation Afenyo Markin and his NOTORIOUS POLITICAL PARTY THIEVING GANG will be SCREAMING and SHOUTING at the world that it's WITCH HUNTERS hunting NPP. ...
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  • EFO KOKU 10 hours ago

    SREM SAI
    The deputy attorney general gained a scholarship to study in the UK. Did he also enjoy all that? Then he should be arrested.

  • Ruthan 10 hours ago

    Extend it to all the scholarships P/NDC have wasted on children of their functionaries. Eastern Europe particularly Russia created space for Ghanaian students to come and study science. NDC gave it to their children who could ...
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  • Ubaida 10 hours ago

    Exactly what's on my mind. They think Ghanaians are fools. Baby thoughts and attitude

  • Northern Boy 9 hours ago

    What was akufo ado's job description when he came to office? Please tell us.

  • Amansan 5 hours ago

    He was visiting Badu Kobi, who faked collapse.... hehe

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  • Susan Djan 12 hours ago

    This is very bad. Eeiiii NPP. They are all over the place sabotaging Mahama's government. Just imagine if Bawumia had won. The looting would have continued. Thank God he did not win. Hmmmmm

  • Ama 10 hours ago

    NDC is always shouting thieves thieves thieves to take off the minds of Ghanaians of their thievery acts. NDC Leaders are like Pickpockets & Kayayeis in our markets their tactics is to make noise in order for them to Steal u ...
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  • Koppong 12 hours ago

    Mention their names and prosecute such thieves, also arrest the registrar

  • Lombardi 10 hours ago

    We won't mention for you thieves to run. We shall only knock on your door and pick you up for the Police Headquarters

  • Sethoo 10 hours ago

    Which Thief in Ghana is bigger than the one who took bribe from the Airbus SE deal and inflated the IPP Contracts with ASKA of Turkey? Disgraceful breed of human beings

  • Nana 12 hours ago

    It's a criminal organisation not a political party

  • Koppong 12 hours ago

    Sedina case is bad example so stop boring us these corrupt activities of the previous government

  • Zargon 11 hours ago

    Tell us what she stole? Nonsense

  • GH8 10 hours ago

    She stole our money in polythene bags at filling stations. Odwanba. The unnamed people Zita is talking about what have they stolen?

  • MOG 12 hours ago

    Please don't divert attention,for now we are discussing the Aska scandal- Ehuuuuu!!!

  • ... 10 hours ago

    Wo maame tw3 kankaen s3 tiefi

  • Amansan 5 hours ago

    Ashewo .... tell Ghanaians the truth

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 11 hours ago

    AKUFFO ADDO JUST BECAME PRESIDENT TO DESTROY GHANA. EVERY NPP MEMBER WAS LOOTING WHEN THEY REALISED THAT HE AND HIS FAMILY BEDIATUO, KEN OFORI ATTA, WERE LOOTING

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  • Yaw 11 hours ago

    Ghanaians haven’t seen anything yet. These are just what have been discovered. Those gang of thieves were actually born ‘to still to sieve Ghana’, as their anthem says. They don’t even deserve the opposition they are ...
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  • Forlifive 11 hours ago

    Eiish npp how

  • Yakubu 11 hours ago

    Everything is abuse in our system. If this happens then the true beneficiaries will cry for money as if the government isn't doing his job

  • Apeo 11 hours ago

    Stop this bullshit NDC is the most corrupt government in disguised.

  • Brian 11 hours ago

    Honorable Respectfully you are a lawyer and am happy you said these are allegations meaning it's not been tested with evidence in the court of competent jurisdiction.

    Jurisdiction wise its trimble in Ghana;Who has the cap ...
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  • Truth stands 11 hours ago

    This country called Ghana is a suck country. Find all of them, prosecute them, and if found culpable, jail them..
    We have put NDC at the helm of affairs and anytime, they complain to we the ordinary masses.
    Why??? I hope th ...
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  • Say it loud 11 hours ago

    This case is as bad as sedinam's but hey, we are in Ghana where the goat thief can be sent to jail for ten years but the politicians will steal billions of cedis and walk free. What a pathetic system!

  • FAG 10 hours ago

    NDC IS TRYING SO HARD TO EQUALISE THE ASKA BRIBERY SCANDAL THAT HAPPENED 2014-2015 UNDER MAHAMA. But ino go work because our eyes are open

  • Mukasa 10 hours ago

    That is not too bad.
    It's went through the approval process. So it was granted even during Rawlings rule.

  • Julio Olympio 10 hours ago

    That was how the system works since time immemorial. She should stop making too much noise and critically correct the system. If time persist she will continue to make too many noise and refuse to correct the system. In the l ...
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  • The Ghost of Ghana 10 hours ago

    Let us all be impartial and make honest comments about this sharing of wealth to people who are sufficiently wealthy but Greedy to the core. Where can you do this mess and go without jail teams.

  • Kath 10 hours ago

    Just watching who will be named and prosecuted in this “new scandal”.if you think you have good evidence, send it out there to the appropriate department to work on these allegations. Otherwise, you may have to stop distu ...
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  • George 10 hours ago

    The Government should take these scandals seriously and ensure that those involved are arrested, prosecuted and jailed. We can not live in a country with this level of corruption, dishonesty and lawlessness. Ghanaians are tir ...
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  • Mr. T 10 hours ago

    What kind of country is Ghana building. What is this foolishness. Omg

  • AGBELI KUMORDZI8 9 hours ago

    NPP government officials came to loot not to govern

  • Amansan 5 hours ago

    You think Ghanaians are fools. Let your works speak for you.

  • Northern Boy 9 hours ago

    Hmmmm!

  • DUC 9 hours ago

    So, if Dr Kingsley who was the CEO of the Scholarship Secretariat supervised all this rot why did our system allow him to become an member of parliament? Why is this country always rewarding criminals. He should be removed an ...
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  • Nee 9 hours ago

    Why not wait for the NIB to finish their investigation before coming out with this propaganda. What if you are wrong, will you resign??. Let those with knowledge of auditing and investigation do their work before coming out w ...
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  • Yaw 9 hours ago

    I still don’t get the message Zita is trying to convey. Is she saying spouses of scholarship beneficiaries who by the terms of their award are entitled should not be paid coverage for health insurance and other stipends? Yo ...
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  • TRUTH 9 hours ago

    There's no where in the world and in past Ghana were scholarship candidates also had moneys for their wards and spouses.

    Do we sponsor military soldiers children and spouses when they go on peace missions.

  • Chris 9 hours ago

    Oh my dear country Ghana, no comments.

  • Ghman 8 hours ago

    Everything in Ghana is rotten. We have no system to stop the rot- we only talk about it after the event. And even when people are caught sentenced it becomes a political issue where even lawyers who should know better become ...
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  • Ghman 8 hours ago

    Everything in Ghana is rotten. We have no system to stop the rot- we only talk about it after the event. And even when people are caught sentenced it becomes a political issue where even lawyers who should know better become ...
    read full comment

  • Ghman 8 hours ago

    Everything in Ghana is rotten. We have no system to stop the rot- we only talk about it after the event. And even when people are caught sentenced it becomes a political issue where even lawyers who should know better become ...
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  • KWASI IN EUROPE 8 hours ago

    This woman called Zita is purely ignorant. Does she know that when we were at the university in Ghana we were paid at the end of every month just for being university students? The system changed just recently. Instead of try ...
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  • KWASI IN EUROPE 8 hours ago

    I have read and noticed that Zita entered KNUST as recently as 1996. No wonder her ignorance in the scholarship system in Ghana. The best she can do is to suggest what should now be done instead of talking as if she has just ...
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  • OSAFO KANTANKA 8 hours ago

    This is very Outrageous!!! Are these NPP guys really GHANAIANS? What has Ghana done to deserve such monstrous treatment.? All involved in this matter should be punished for their appalling behaviour.

  • Kwame 8 hours ago

    No wonder everyone wants to go into politics. Farming is a very lucrative job in some countries but in Africa, politics is more lucrative.

  • Efo Kofi 8 hours ago

    KWAASHIAA foolish woman

  • Kwame not Quame 7 hours ago

    I hate Ghanaian attitude that I can't mention names, then why telling us this

  • Kwame not Quame 7 hours ago

    I hate Ghanaian attitude that I can't mention names, then why telling us this

  • Abrewa 7 hours ago

    i think the president should reshuffle this lady and bring her into the cyber security fold! All she has down for the past 18 months is to sit on social media and rant about the past staff and what they did or did not do! why ...
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  • Abrewa 7 hours ago

    look her face like a mouse!!!

  • Lucky 7 hours ago

    What a rot. No Wonder there was haircut all over the place.

  • Truth 7 hours ago

    Why not cancel this scholarship thing. I think it has outlived it usefulness and politicians will always abuse these things....let's be bold in some of these things. Student should explore their own scholarship as there are m ...
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  • Jtowm 7 hours ago

    Let’s abolish the scholarship secretariat. It has outlived its relevance.

  • Kwaku 6 hours ago

    If you have found these people to be corrupt, do you publish it in the press or you let EOCO or whomever go after them with the evidence you claim to have? This woman and a lot of Ghanaians are not serious at all.

  • Nye bro 6 hours ago

    Prosecute the former scholarship secretariat boss. He was extremely CORRUPT!

  • £35 MILLION DEBT FOR SCHOLARSHIP 5 hours ago

    £35 MILLION for scholarship.

    What did Ghanaians do wrong to NPP for this level of wickedness.

  • £35 MILLION DEBT FOR SCHOLARSHIP 5 hours ago

    £35 MILLION for scholarship.

    What did Ghanaians do wrong to NPP for this level of wickedness.

  • HAPPY DAYS 5 hours ago

    DUC,you're living in a glass house so becareful with stone throwing,'Hon' Collins Dauda is sitting in Parliament with a cool $130million in his pocket with the knowledge of the leaders of NDC,how much is the Zita woman talkin ...
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  • £35 MILLION DEBT FOR SCHOLARSHIP 4 hours ago

    So are you saying she should be quiet and also steal like everyone.

    It is not the duty of commissioners to acquire loans from foreign countries when they quietly look on while state resources are squandered.
    Money's tha ...
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  • Prudhomme - The rot started with the CPP in the 1960s 2 hours ago

    Most Ghanaians don't know the history of corruption in Ghana.

    It all started in the CPP adminitration of Kwame Nkrumah when whole families accompanied scholarship recipients to the destination of their studies.

    Ghana ha ...
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