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Why must the state pay for people's post-graduate choices? – Randy Abbey on Scholarship Secretariat saga

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  • Johhnywas 1 month ago

    I agree. Let's not forget, the NDC paid for Togbe Afede's post-graduate education. Ghana is a joke. I know the NPP has been paying for people's law degrees overseas.

  • Unpredictable Oye Onye Kwasi Atta 1 month ago

    Johhnywas, you are one of the most dangerous inhumane liars in the world for fabricating palpable falsehoods about an innocent man who is one of the most revered chiefs in Ghana. Even though I do not know him personally, I've ...
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  • Fati 1 month ago

    Johhywas
    He's a npp footsoldier inplanted in ghanaweb to defend their evil deeds. A typical evil man himself. Ghsna brought on the npp to do things differently not to repeat same graft as ndc. Stupid people!

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  • Tozoo 1 month ago

    U r rather stupid nd blind

  • WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS AKUFO-ADDO AND HIS NPP EFUOM FOOL 1 month ago

    THERE'S NOTHING LIKE MERIT IN GHANA. EVERYTHING IN GHANA IS ABOUT TRIBALISM, NEPOTISM AND "FA ETWE BEGYE DEGREE". THAT'S WHY THE LIKES OF WOMEN WITH GARGANTUAN BUTTOCKS MOESHA, VICTORIA HAMAH, URSULA AND OTHERS HOLD COPY AND ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 month ago

    You are right. This has been going on since the time of Nkrumah. It has always been whom you know. Didn’t we hear of a member of the NDC who flew to Britain every weekend by Ghana Airways for a Masters Degree that could hav ...
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  • Kelly 1 month ago

    You're a mad man. When was the NDC formed? Bush rat

  • General Afrifa 1 month ago

    The state was paying for people pass port including my own which my self it doesnt make sense to me
    My only problem us the delay in getting it unless it pass through a goro boy
    So i agree with you that kind of scholarship ...
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  • GHANAIAN 1 month ago

    I was in the same class with Stan Dogbe at the University of Liverpool. His fees, hotel expenses and travel by business class were paid by the Ghana gov't. Many people including ministers and MPs are always sponsored to do po ...
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  • Grow in wisdom 1 month ago

    Shut up and stop the hypocrisy. You benefited from state largesse, when you were the gateman at John Mahama’s residence.

    Yes, fairness is required in such matters, but it is far better when the beneficiaries come back t ...
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  • Kay 1 month ago

    The sad story of Ghana is the most dangerous criminals in the country make the most noise just to confuse the situation.Randy is a typical Kejetia or Makola pickpocket.

  • K. Boateng 1 month ago

    Didn't govt pay for your flight, accommodation and per diem to go watch world cup and afcon tournaments? Hypocrites!!!

  • KWASI IN EUROPE 1 month ago

    THIS FOOLISH ABBEY TOO. So this idiot does not know that Ghana needs educated people?

  • Rebecca 1 month ago

    You are rather foolish. So because Ghana needs educated people, we should use our small resources to educate a few people abroad

  • OGyam 1 month ago

    @Kwasi, the village twat! what sort of English don"t you understand? You always put your foot right in it, why? surely, you cannot be that stupid.If you struggle with English, then, God only knows how you cope with Dutch or G ...
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  • Joe Black 1 month ago

    Will you shut up Randy. Today it’s not your government in power so someone’s ass should be dragged in the mud right. Randy, are you sure at your age, it’s now that you’re seeing or hearing about this kind of corruptio ...
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  • Donatus 1 month ago

    One of the npp guys said Ghanaians cannot tell who's needed.

  • ROGUE LAWYER 1 month ago

    Any person who has taken what he supposed not to have taken or has taken advantage to benefit from what he or she is not due for, must be asked to pay the state funds back, or face prosecution in which his or her properties c ...
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  • Ama 1 month ago

    Thank you Randy! That's why Gh is ranked as the country with its people having the lowest IQ.Why on earth should a poor indebted country be using state resources to pay foreign educational institutions?? It is senseless! The ...
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  • Zionism is racism 1 month ago

    What will happen after the probe? Nothing. Just like criminal, racist and terrorist zionist Israel flouting all the principles of international law with no consequence.

  • Ebenezer Jones-Lartey 1 month ago

    If the post graduate program will benefit the state then the sponsorship is worth it. There ought to be an agreement to bind the recipient to a number of terms that will benefit the state

  • Yaw 1 month ago

    My brother, when were you born, even when our local graduates are asked to do their national service, how productive are they to their communities?

  • Yoo 1 month ago

    Kwasi Pratt's daughters benefitted from it. They all schooled in the UK. You see how he has been quiet about the matter?

  • Nii 1 month ago

    Akans/Ashantis and Ewes are very corrupt.They take advantage of weaknesses of the State to steal.They have stolen juicy Ga Lands.All the Ga Lands at Dzorwulu were and its evirons, were stolen by Akan former military office ...
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  • Koo Sei 1 month ago

    NII, one can equally say that it has been grossly unfair to have COCOBOD,TIMBER, MINING,Minerals and almost all the major ministries located in Greater Accra, when most of the materials are not from that region.Will that be a ...
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  • DON 1 month ago

    U HAVE ALSO BENEFITED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER,,SHUT UP,,HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO GET MONEY TO BUY HEARTS OF LIONS

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  • Nbb 1 month ago

    NPP liars? Are those expenses made on the NPP sympathizers protecting the public purse? Eeii, Nana and his Timothy!

  • Afro Moses 1 month ago

    So where was this imbecile when late Mills sent Ablakwa,Fiifi Kwatey and others into school in England on charter planes to study trips.These imbeciles should not take us for granted thing we have short memories.

  • Kwame 1 month ago

    Corrupt journalist questioning corrupt politicians

  • OSAFO KANTANKA 1 month ago

    Ghanaians and their extremely Evil ways are always ready to change Angelic songs of praise to the tunes of the devil. I wonder why ? This has always niggled my mind..

  • Kofi from Canada 1 month ago

    This Randy sits at the executive council at the GFA and is destroying GHA football yet he sits on TV to question goevernt decisions. Hypocrites guy.

  • Elephant Farmer 1 month ago

    Okuzeto 's wife in California is close to ndc. These rich students and former students shall refund GETFUND and Scholarships. It's waste of money, taxpayers money and a loss to the state. Useless office.

  • BIGGY 1 month ago

    People should not behave like they donot know what is going on. The nation is corrupt. They can go back into NDC era. Not only scholarships. They must check govt contracts under both NDC and NPP. We are all joking with demo ...
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  • kofitwumb@gmail.com 1 month ago

    This thing has been there since mills/mahama era.what did you say at that time?

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  • Hmm 1 month ago

    When they develop their human capital is it not coming to Ghana. Foolish talk.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 month ago

    Hmmm, how many of them come back to Ghana to settle down and work to help Ghana? They end up marrying Westerners and hardly come back to Ghana.

  • Joe Pap 1 month ago

    Please open the register for all to know the beneficiaries and it will shock you. Even if you don't come to power, please publish the full list and we will all know who the real beneficiaries have been it will be Revelation ...
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  • Shameless leaders 1 month ago

    These monies can open up more chances for doctors and nursing trainees in ghana but they choose to go and sponsor their useless political programs/studies just to turn around and rule us. We see nothing but plain thievery in ...
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    God created everything and said everything is good. Sadly, man decided to destroy all the good things God created. Even to the extent that a man created by God decided to become woman and vice versa.
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  • Kiki 1 month ago

    Is Randy Abbey and others suggesting that had it not been for the 4th Estate report they are not aware that Scholarship Secretariat has been awarding scholarships to all manner of Ghanaians with all sorts of connections sinc ...
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  • Corrupt Fourth Estate 1 month ago

    The corrupt Fourth Estate must publish from 1992( since independence). Nonsense, useless, propaganda publication.
    No matter what, the NDC will lose the elections. Ghost of Atta Mills Rise up again oooo.

  • Akua 1 month ago

    This is one hell of an issue where those in charge, including the beneficiaries, shd be charged. How does a state fund your postgraduate course? Especially if you're working and capable of paying? Such thievery

  • Rose 1 month ago

    Eventhough the government is paying for the tuition of these students, a lot of people are paying a ransome to some members in the secretariat office before getting the scholarship letter signed. Gh for us

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  • Ex-Pope 1 month ago

    The Scholarship Secretariat should not fund any person to undertake courses offered at Ghana's universities. The Scholarship Secretariat must post the names of scholarship recipients on-line, while also making these awards av ...
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  • Ex-Pope 1 month ago

    Correction to first sentence.

    The Scholarship Secretariat should not fund persons taking courses outside Ghana that are offered at Ghana's universities.

  • Kwabuaa Gyampoh 1 month ago

    Hypocrites all. Scholarship secretariat has been in existence since independence and we all know it always favours the government in power. Is it now that the registrar shd be interdict? You are all liars. Pls start the probe ...
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  • Sasabonsam 4 weeks ago

    The whole scholarship program should be dismantled. Most of the recipients who sponsored into foreign institutions never return to Ghana after graduation. I know several folks who benefitted from Ghana scholarships and are in ...
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  • Sage 4 weeks ago

    What about those useless Ndc people sent to Cuba ?
    90% were Ndc Ewes, Northerners.
    Stupid bloated impotent fool.

  • Ex-Pope 4 weeks ago

    NPP IS A GALAMSEY PARTY OF THIEVING LIARS AND MURDERERS.

    What of your useless NPP Adwoa Safo and Farouk Aliu who were sent to Harvard just to vacation at the expense of the Ghanaian tax payer? NPP is nothing but a galamsey ...
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  • Bubra 4 weeks ago

    In a functioning society, scholarships provide an opportunity to close thr gap between the privileged elites and brilliant but underprivileged people irrespective of the level of education. If a brilliant but underprivileged ...
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  • George faraday Agyenim 4 weeks ago

    In ghana every good initiative you will get people to criticize it but that money cannot be account for my brother in South Africa even ghanaians who are taking post graduate courses they get financial support from the south ...
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