A former beauty queen is on a list of scholarship beneficiaries obtained by The Fourth Estate in response to a Right to Information request.
Giusepina Baafi, who won the Miss Ghana pageant in 2013, received a scholarship award of 18,500 euros as stipend to study for a Master’s degree at the Schellhammer Business School in Spain.
She got the scholarship award in 2019 – six years after she won the beauty pageant, from which she would resign after a very public spat with the organisers of the event. She was one of 972 recipients.
The Fourth Estate was supplied with the list of government of Ghana scholarship beneficiaries for 2019 and 2020 after a contested right to information request. The Scholarship Secretariat released the data only after an order from the Right to Information Commission, which ruled that as scholarship funds were public funds, basic information about beneficiaries could be made public.
The data revealed that the Scholarship Secretariat has been awarding a good number of scholarships to the relatives, children, employees and associates of government officials, politicians and people with high society and political connections. Some of the beneficiaries, it was discovered, are also leading members and operatives of the governing New Patriotic Party.
We publish below the second batch of the list of government of Ghana scholarships beneficiaries for the years 2019 and 2020.
List of Foreign Scholarships Beneficiaries Part Two by Clem Journo on Scribd
YOU CAN READ MORE AT:
Scholarships Bonanza: Full list of Foreign Scholarships beneficiaries – Part 1
Scholarships bonanza: The powerful grab as double scholarships flow
Scholarships bonanza: How some are struggling while others received double double
very good article. however you need to stop arguing that the funds for these scholarships could have paid for many equivalent degrees in Ghana. in my view that is not a very good argument because the difference in the quality of education is vast.
the education in ghana is so poor that even masters and PhD degree holders from Ghanaian universities do not possess any real knowledge capable of development.
I will always prefer that Ghanaians study abroad if they have the opportunity because they will graduate with real skill sets to contribute to development.
however I agree that beneficiaries of scholarships should be based on merit.
the practice of going to the scholarship secretariat and seeing files from the Alban Gbagbin and Akuffo Addo’s office because they are recommending people for scholarships must stop. this is what I saw in 2021 on a table at the scholarship secretariat.
Then make education in Ghana equally good by resourcing our education facilities. Would you say the same for our medical facilities and thus encourage people who have the means to govt resources to be flown outside the country for medical treatment?
sad ????????????????
I’m so disappointed in what we are doing in Ghana. Could you take a look at the names? The ethnocentrism is too bad. Looking at this, I’ll advocate that the North must agitate to join Cote D’Ivoire or Burkina Faso. Imagine how long this has been going on. It is very painful how we develop this kind of mentality. The programs you are wasting our money on can’t develop us. No wonder you have 10 people doing the same job in this waisted country.
the point is, every other person would grab the opportunity to send their own relation out there to study. when others get, those who don’t get cry foul. everyone wants.. some get.. chase it and if u r fortunate grab it fast
Really Really sad…they even argue and justify this without shame. The whole country and just someways. integrity is a scarce commodity. How did we get here.
This is just the foreign ones. Investigate the local ones too, where people pay bribe equivalent to the fees for one year to be given the scholarship.