The Africa Center for the Study of World Views and Wholistic Development is devastated by the latest publication of a scholarship bonanza that named persons closely connected to government officials by The Fourth Estate.
As a nation working assiduously towards development, It is quite disturbing and regrettable for scholarships intended for brilliant but disadvantaged students in the country to be used for people who are so connected and influential.
We are so discouraged by the response of the registrar of the scholarship secretary that we need legislation to dispel eligibility misconceptions about people who qualify to access Ghana government scholarships.
This is a clear indication of how broken our nation is and that people have lost all their godly conscience and moral and ethical values, and have been compromised for favoritism and selfish gain.
We think that we don’t need scholarship legislation to be clear about eligibility don’t we have the conscience, values, and principles to do what is right ever for the needy, vulnerable and poor?
And more especially in dispensing the nation’s scarce resources for which we are mandated to do?
This clearly shows how wicked some of our leaders are so privileged to be in place of position and trust to serve us. We need a real change of hearts and minds and godly leaders who fear God to align our nation to prosperity and success.
It is more disheartening to hear that students allegedly have to pay bribes to the scholarship secretariat to receive consent and others to get approval for scholarships.
I was so saddened and wept for my mother Ghana if we have gotten to this stage of GREED where even poor people are no longer pitied with compassion and helped but rather impoverished more before qualified people get placement jobs, admissions, and access to
the very things they are duly qualified for just because of greed, nepotism, and the schism of the powerful and the more connected.
We unreservedly condemn this practice and call for repentance and a complete shake-up and removal of the secretariat.
Such a secretariat needs godly, compassionate, and morally upright managers and not people who can be compromised, selfish or greedy.
Christopher Ampadu PhD.
Executive Director
Africa Centre for the study of WORLDVIEWS and Wholistic Development of Society