Frank Annoh Dompreh, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsawam, indicated that he was quite satisfied with his contribution to the decentralization of scholarships in Ghana.
He asserts that if God calls him today, he will pass away having lived a full life, knowing full well that he paved the way for greater scholarship availability in Ghana.
He made this statement while discussing his difficulties as a university student who had to borrow money to pay his tuition on Adom TV’s Badwam.
“While entering the university, I had to go for a loan against my SSNIT loan to pay fees, and it was through that I managed to complete school. I have three masters at the moment and I have plans to start my PhD early next year or later this year” he said.
The Majority Chief Whip indicated it was not an easy course, but he managed to succeed due to persistence and consistency.
“I used to go to the scholarship Secretariat and sit there for monitoring, but I realized people will travel from far and near just to acquire scholarships. They will spend the whole day at the secretariat and nobody will attend to them.
“So I took it upon myself to ensure the process is decentralized and my first statement about it in parliament was when Doe Adjaho was the Speaker, but it wasn’t given any attention and when we came into power, I continued with the call and now, people go through a smooth and transparent system at the District levels for scholarships without travelling all the way to Accra,” he recounted.
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