GETFund challenges Auditor General’s report

The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) is challenging claims of mismanagement and illegalities in the Auditor-General’s report.

• GETFund has, in a 12-page response to the Auditor General, debunked many of the assertions in the report. It indicated, among other things, that the claim that the institution had discontinued scholarship funding to the Scholarship Secretariat since 2008 was false.

Document: How GETFUND granted MPs, politicians, others $4.7m in scholarships as brilliant but needy students suffered

According to GETFund, it disbursed funds to the Scholarship Secretariat even in 2009.

“In 2009 and 2010, the Scholarship Secretariat submitted a schedule of fees and stipends due Ghanaian Students studying abroad for the GETFund to transfer same to the Ghanaian Missions abroad.

Document: How GETFUND ‘gifted’ more than 1,200 scholarships without seeing admission letters

“In 2011 as part of special allocations towards social intervention programmes, at the instance of Government, an amount of GHc 22 million was allocated and released to the scholarship Secretariat,” the fund said in its response.

There is nothing wrong for politically exposed persons to access government scholarships – Buaben Asamoa

GETFund added that it did not receive a request for the release of funds from the Scholarships Secretariat until 2017.
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