Ghana must review its sponsored student policy

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• JULOR CAESAR 7 hours ago

  The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat, after the expose of corruption regarding its awarding of scholarships for study abroad, has vowed to weed out corruption in the system. How does that agency intend to weed out corruption whe ...
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  The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat, after the expose of corruption regarding its awarding of scholarships for study abroad, has vowed to weed out corruption in the system. How does that agency intend to weed out corruption when it has not addressed the issue of lack of openness regarding the awarding of those scholarships? A closed system in a corrupt nation like Ghana only fuels more corruption. The Scholarship Secretariat should make available to the public the names of scholarship recipients, the institutions where they study, the major pursued by recipients, the duration of the study, the amounts paid per year for each recipient, and an immediate end to the practice of paying for spouses and children of scholarship recipients to join these recipients in the country of where they're undertaking their studies. Furthermore, the practice of paying for thieving useless politicians to spend time at Harvard University yearly for a course that can be pursued at Ghana universities must be stopped immediately, for that useless program is nothing but a free vacation for these greedy and vision-less politicians. Also, the Secretariat should compile a list of scholarship recipients detailing those who returned to work in Ghana upon completion of their studies, as well as the recipients who failed to return to Ghana. It's time for the head of the Scholarship Secretariat to show Ghanaians that his agency is serious about flushing out the stench of corruption within that agency, for mere words and promises alone are meaningless without concrete steps to taken to address the flaws.

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