<<Print>>

Executive Director for Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mr. Mensah Thompson, wants the Auditor-General, Mr. Daniel Yaw Domelevo to surcharge especially all government officials including ministers and Members of Parliament as well as those in state institutions to repay the GETFund scholarship given to them.

According to him, ASEPA has already communicated its desire to the Auditor-General officially.

Speaking on Okay FM’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, Mr. Mensah Thompson impressed the Auditor-General to find a way of retrieving the GETFund scholarship from the undeserving personalities in the report as it is within the Auditor-General’s purview to surcharge them.

“We are still reviewing the GETFund scholarship saga; it is a bit dicey. We have served the Auditor-General a letter suggesting, even though this is within the Auditor-General’s purview, that we should surcharge especially those in government, Members of Parliament, Ministers involved and those in government institutions and with the money paid for their education, we should turn the GETFund Scholarship into what we call a loan”.

“We should convert it into student loans for them; so, we will go back and if for instance, one took $56000 from GETFund, we should turn into a student loan and spread it within a period of one year and then deduct from their salary every month, especially the Ministers and the Parliamentarians till they finally service the student loan”, he emphasized.

He added that those with the capacity to repay at once should be given the opportunity to do so; insisting that steps must be taken to retrieve those scholarship grants in order to serve as a deterrent for those in government who use their positions for scholarships.

“Those with the capacity to repay at once should be given the opportunity to repay; at least, we must take steps to retrieve those scholarship grants because they didn’t deserve it. so, if the Auditor-General is able to surcharge them, it will help a lot, at least it will serve as a deterrent for those in government who use their positions for scholarships and other benefits which are meant for poor and needy students and the ordinary Ghanaian”, he fumed.