About 25 tertiary students in the Municipal Assembly has received their share of the Government Scholarships to Tertiary student worth GHC 66,000. Chief Executive of the Assembly, Godwin Effah, presented the award letter to the beneficiaries during his keynote address at the maiden edition of the meet the press in the history of the municipality.
The MCE applauded the President Akufo-Addo led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for the decentralization and the expansion of the government tertiary scholarship assistance to the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) level, observing that “it is important and educative to note that the past awards of the Ghana scholarship to deserving students was distributed at the central government level, making it difficult for fair distribution of the facility, most of the needy but brilliant students in the various district’s throughout the country did not have access to the facility”.
He said “It is heartwarming to note that his Excellency the president has directed that awards of government scholarships should be decentralized to all district’s Nationwide”.
He added that the move by the President is meant to make accessibility to the higher education easier as it will go a long way to bring relief to parents who go the extra mile to see their children in the tertiary education.
“As I speak, just two weeks ago, I on behalf of the President handed over scholarships to the tune of GHC66,000 to 25 students selected throughout the Keta Municipality who are schooling in the various Tertiary institutions in the country, this is the type of social interventions we are taking about,” he stated confidently.
He challenge all the beneficiaries to work hard since this is a high level investment Ghana is making into their future and they must go out as good Ambassadors of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Source: William Dei-Gyau
