The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat
has confirmed that it has not
been able to provide allowances
of Ghanaian medical students in
Cuba for the past nine months.
It, however, said the secretariat
was awaiting approval for
payment request from the
Ministry of Finance to enable
the Controller and Accountant
General’s Department to release
the allowances to
the affected students.
Registrar
The Registrar of Scholarships of
the
Ghana Scholarship Secretariat, Mr
Fuseini
Lansah, who disclosed this in an
interview, said the key
stakeholders
including the Office of the
President, the
Ministry of Finance and the
Controller
and Accountant General’s
Department
were putting in place measures to
ensure that the students receive
their
allowances regularly.
“After the Minister of Finance has
approved the request, he will
then
instruct the Controller and
Accountant
General’s Department to release
the
money depending on the
availability of
the amount needed by the
students,” he
explained.
Communication channel
Mr Lansah said the secretariat
was
communicating with the students’
representatives in Cuba and the
Ghana
Mission in Cuba to assure them
that their
allowances would be released.
He, therefore, urged the students
to
refrain from activities that would
bring
the name of the country into
disrepute.
Situation in Cuba
Ghanaian medical students on
government scholarships in Cuba
claim
they have been forced to selling
their
personal effects to feed
themselves.
According to them, that had
become the
only option left for them now,
since the
government had failed to pay
them their
allowances for over nine months.
About 200 students left Ghana for
Cuba
in 2012 to study in different fields
of
medicine with scholarships from
thegovernment.
These students were selected
fromdeprived areas across the country
and are to stay in Cuba for six years. While in Cuba the government is expectedto pay each student $250 dollars everymonth for his or her upkeep.
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