General News of Thursday, 27 February 2020
Source: www.ghanaweb.live
2020-02-27Bernard Avle goes berserk over GETFund scholarship scandal
Ace broadcaster Bernard Koku Avle
Ace broadcaster Bernard Koku Avle has reacted angrily to the scandal that has rocked the GETFund Secretariat over the awarding of scholarships to some MPs, Ministers, media practitioners, lecturers and associates of some political figures, calling on the President to as a matter of urgency overhaul it.
Since Monday, Ghana’s social media space has been awash with anger
Read full articleafter an Auditor-General report revealed that some people believed to be ‘well to do’ in the country are beneficiaries of a scheme designed for needy but brilliant Ghanaians.
Among the names that emerged from the list are Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Procurement Minister Sarah Adwoa Sarfo, Deputy Agricultural Minister Kennedy Osei Nyarko and a son of NDC General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah.
On the February 27 edition of the Citi Breakfast Show, an angry Koku Avle went on a full rant, slamming the Secretariat for its decision to award foreign scholarship for courses that could be studied in Ghana.
The 2018 GJA Best Journalist could not makes sense of the decision to pump money into foreign universities at a time when Ghanaian private universities are struggling to stay aloft.
Bernard expressed doubts with Parliament’s readiness to do a diligent job on the scandal and lambasted the MPs who he claims have insulted the Auditor-General since the release of the report.
He bemoaned the institutionalization of ‘who you know’ by the political class which he believes has rendered the poor in society hopeless.
He argued that the awarding of these scholarships is a slap in the face of the government’s Free SHS programme which seeks to provide equal opportunity for Ghanaians to access education.
Below are some of Bernard Avle’s comments
