Govt
Statistician says census results is accurate
"Lets make peace" - Obed tells
Rawlings
Chris Churcher versus Ameyaw Akumfi
Govt
Statistician says census results is accurate
The
Census Secretariat on Thursday insisted that the final results of the 2000
Population and Housing Census are accurate. It said the report is a true
reflection of the number of people living in the country.
Dr
Kwaku Twum-Baah, the Census Co-ordinator, stated categorically that the Ghana
Statistical Service stands by the final results.
Reacting
to the call by the Coalition of Muslim Organisations for the withdrawal of the
report in an interview, he made it clear that the secretariat will not withdraw
the results.
Dr
Tum-Baah said although there is no 100 per cent census result in any part of
the world, the secretariat undertook a careful exercise to ensure that the
results reflect the true picture of the number of people residing in the
country.
He
said the secretariat spent more than one year in editing, verifying and
evaluating the results before releasing them and this demonstrates how
determined the secretariat was, to come up with a figure which was very
representative of the population of Ghana.
Dr
Twum-Baah, who is also the acting Government Statistician, questioned the basis
for the coalition’s thinking that the population of Ghana is over 21 million,
adding that considering the fertility rate at the moment, there is no way the
population could hit the figure the coalition quoted.
He
said the coalition has no basis to reject the figures because it is impossible
for the country to have a population of 21.3 million. He explained that to
achieve such a figure, the country’s population should be growing at three per
cent per annum but the reality on the ground is to the contrary.
Dr
Tum-Baah said with the current growth rate of 2.6 per cent, which is the lowest
in Africa, it is projected that if the growth rate continues to decline,
Ghana’s population is likely to reach a figure less than 24 million in 2010.
He
added that fertility rate since the last census in 1984 has dropped from 4.5
per cent to 2.4 per cent in the 2000 census. He, therefore, described as
misleading the call by the coalition, which on its own accord has rejected a
whole national exercise without recourse to any scientific analysis.
The
acting Government Statistician challenged the American Central Intelligence
Agency report, which put the Muslim population at 45 per cent and called on the
coalition to come out with its sample size, if it believes the figure.
He
also made reference to the claim by the coalition that previous statistical
data put the population figure of Muslims higher than the 2000 census report
and said there was no census figure on Muslims in the 1984 census. He said the
last time there were figures regarding the Muslim population in a census was in
1969.
Dr
Twum-Baah said the secretariat will address the concerns of the coalition in
due course and reiterated that “the results are correct and we are prepared to
defend it anywhere”.
The
coalition is of the view that the results contain serious flaws and cannot be
used as a reliable statistical data for planning and projecting the country’s
development agenda. Sheikh Seebaway Zakaria, a spokesman for the coalition,
appealed to the government at a news conference in Accra on Thursday to
withdraw the report.
He
said the coalition is vehemently against the census figures, especially those
regarding the population distribution in terms of religion.
He
said out of the 18,845,265 total population, the Muslim population is said to
constitute 2,939,861 representing only 15.6 percent, while their Christian
compatriots constitute 69 percent with African traditional religion recording
8.5 percent.
Sheikh
Seebaway said statistics provided for the year 2001 on the website of the
Central Intelligence Agency of the United States puts the population of Muslims
in Ghana at 30 percent while Christians constitute 24 percent and traditional
religion 38 percent. These same figures, he argued, were provided in the 1995
Universal Almanac.
He
said alternative statistical data regarding the population strengths of the
various religious groups in Ghana contained in the Religious Bodies
Registration Law, PNDCL 221 of 1989 which require all religious groups in the
country to register with the National Commission on Culture puts the Muslim population
at 45 percent, which was never contested.
This,
he said, clearly conflicts with comparative information contained in the 2000
census report.
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The
Search Committee of the University of Ghana will on January 25 begin the
painstaking process to select a new Vice-Chancellor. Incumbent Professor Ivan
Addae-Mensah retires in October this year.
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investigations have revealed that the committee has short-listed six applicants
out of 11 who applied for the post. They include Prof W.K. Asenso-Okyere, Prof.
Kwesi Yankah, Prof Samuel K. Sefa-Dede, and Prof Joseph Amuzu, who is also the
Pro-Vice Chancellor.
The
names of the others who have been short-listed were not immediately available.
But information making rounds in academic circles indicates that Dr Kwesi
Botchwey, former Finance Minister, and a professor at Harvard University in
Boston, USA, is also in the race for the enviable position.
Prof
Asenso-Okyere is currently the Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social
and Economic Research (ISSER) of the university. He is a product of the
University of Ghana, University of Guelph, Canada and University of Missouri,
Colombia, USA.
Prof
Sefa-Dede is also a product of the University of Ghana and the University of
Guelph, Canada. He is currently the Dean of International Programmes at the
university.
Prof.
Sefa-Dede, who lectures at the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, was
also at one time the Country Director for Hunger Project, Ghana.
Prof
Yankah is also the product of the University of Ghana and other universities in
the USA. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and a lecture in the
Department of Linguistics and one-time Dean of Students.
Until
his appointment as Pro-Vice Chancellor, Prof Amuzu was the Dean of the Faculty
of Science. He is a lecturer in Physics.
Before
his appointment as Finance Secretary during the PNDC era, Dr Kwesi Botchwey was
a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana. He is a lecturer
in International Law and Economics. At the dawn of Constitutional rule, he was
appointed Minister of Finance till his untimely resignation in 1995.
Investigations
have also established that contrary to the practice in the past where the
various power centres at the university were asked to nominate persons for the
position, those who applied this time around for the position did so in their
individual capacities.
It
has also been established that the Search Committee, headed by Mrs Afua Hesse,
a retired public and international civil servant, will at the end of the
process, submit the names of the two best candidates to the University Council
for consideration.
The
advertisement in local and international press last October inviting
applications for the position said the post of Vice-Chancellor of the
university will become vacant from October 1, 2002.
The
university, founded in 1948, is the oldest in Ghana and has a student
population of approximately 15,000. It has teaching and administrative staff of
600 and almost 3,000 support staff.
The
mission of the university as defined in its Corporate Strategic Plan is to
develop world-class human resources and capabilities to meet national
development needs and global challenges through quality teaching, learning,
research and knowledge dissemination.
Professor
Addae-Mensah was first appointed in 1996 for a five-year tenure, which ended in
2001. He was, however, given a one-year contract, which ends in October, this
year.
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The Minority Leader in Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin, said the Minority is investigating allegations that Parliament did not have the required constitutional quorum when it passed the National Reconciliation Bill and if the allegation is supported with evidence, then definitely, it would erode the legality of the whole bill.
The
bill, he said, becomes unconstitutional and therefore it would have no force of
law. “You can have less than one hundred (100) members of the house for
discussion but in taking a decision, you need, by our constitutional provision,
to have more than half and that is one hundred and one (101). That is the
position, so if they (the Majority) actually passed the bill with less than one
hundred and one members, then it means the bill is actually not legal”.
Hon
Bagbin, who was speaking to the “Ghana Palaver” in an interview in his office
said, “this is a legal matter we can easily take to court”.
Torching
on President Kufour’s comments during the ninth anniversary celebrations, the
Minority Leader said, “I am actually unhappy to hear the President say he was
going to assent to the Reconciliation Bill, because we have gone a step further
to petition the President as a party and not as the Minority in Parliament”.
He
said, he was aware the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in their petition,
has appealed to the President to exercise his powers under the constitution by
declining to assent to the bill and refer it back to Parliament, stating some
of the reasons that have been expressed by Civil Society, the International
Community and the minority in Parliament.
Mr
Bagbin said, to get a reconciliation in the country, all sectors of the people,
all class of people must feel that they are part of the process and you need
the total co-operation of the people before you can get a reconciliation.
The
way the bill has been passed, he said where even Parliament itself is not
speaking with one voice, it will not be able to achieve what it was intended
for.
Asked,
now that the President is ignoring your petition, what would be your next line
of action? Mr Bagbin said, he thinks it would be in the interest of the whole
nation, together with civil society to reappraise the situation and see how
best to go about it because if you compel people to the commission, you cannot
compel them to reconcile with you.
Reconciliation,
he noted, is a different exercise, totally different from the normal bills that
is passed in Parliament and said, “It is so sensitive that we should as a
nation commit ourselves to genuine reconciliation or we would just be deepening
the difference already existing in the country”.
Explaining
the viewpoint of the Minority on the bill, Mr Bagbin said, the objective of the
bill as it stands now, is to look at the military regimes, trying to reconcile
the military with the civilian population, but if you are talking about
National Reconciliation then the objective of the bill must go beyond that.
He
said, here, one is talking about human right abuses, violations, tortures and
trying to set the historical records straight because most of the time, what we
refer to as official statements is not the plain truth.
Take,
for instance, the September 1969 Yendi massacre, where 69 people were mowed
down in cold blood but official sources under the Busia regime gave the number
killed as 23, he emphasised. Now, the Minority Leader said, the people want to
come before the commission and testify of the heinous and abrasive acts
committed against them to set the records straight.
He
said, the focus of a genuine National Reconciliation is on the victims and not
the perpetrators, the people who caused human rights abuses or tortured the
victims.
“We
are now trying to see how we can assuage the suffering of the victims and try
to reconcile them with these people who were suspects or criminal perpetrators,
that is what we are looking at”, Mr Bagbin said.
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A
Koforidua-based legal practitioner, Nana Addo-Aikins has appealed to President
J.A. Kufuor to refer the National Reconciliation Commission Bill back to
Parliament for a consensus decision to be taken on it before his Presidential
assent.
In
a press release, he referred to the boycott of the Bill by the Minority
National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentarians at the voting stage in
Parliament and described the situation as “constituting a serious
constitutional hazard for which a special Presidential directive is needed to
solve.”
Nana
Addo-Aikins, a former Public Tribunal Chairman under the Provisional National
Defence Council (PNDC) regime, therefore, urged the President to “see the
seriousness of the matter, invoke his Constitutional powers under Article
106(7,8a) of the Constitution and refer the Bill back to Parliament for
reconsideration, bearing in mind the urgent need for Parliamentary and public
consensus.”
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"Lets make peace" - Obed tells
Rawlings
The man a
the centre of the self-destructive feud in the National Democratic Congress, Dr
Obed Asamoah is waving the white flag in a war he believes has been fought more
by "perception" of conflict between himself and former President
Jerry Rawlings than by the perceived 'Generals' of the warring factions. The former
Minister of Justice who has made no secret of his desire to be elected chairman
of the second largest political party in the country appears very frustrated by
the "mischief" to smear him and the diversion of precious political
energy into the pursuit of a suicidal infighting. He is therefore calling for
peace.
Since President Kufuor's win in December 2000,
the NDC has been in a state of shock, moreover, suffering from a prelapsarian
innocence on how to drive forward from the hard shoulder of opposition tarmac.
Many observers are beginning to wonder whether
the NDC should now be considered the natural party of opposition - A far cry
from a few years ago when it won an unprecedented two consecutive elections.
Until the NPP unseated it; Rawlings' baby looked like the natural party of
government after its leadership, including Dr Obed Asamoah had ruled for the
eleven years before January 7, 1993 as the PNDC. Today, the party seems
dominated by the polarized mud-wrestling of the Rawlings and Obed factions.
Sadly, for many of the party's ordinary members, the feuding upper echelons
thus far appear to view dispute settlements as an esoteric exercise, alien to
them.
Asked if the proper and mature thing to do will
not be to meet Rawlings, an old close buddy, face to face to smoke the piece
pipe, which incidentally would serve as a chemotherapic cure to the cancer of
bad blood that seems to be eating the party from the inside? Dr Obed Asamoah responded: "that seems
an idea worth considering. Indeed I will welcome such a development."
He, however, added that shortly after the
emergency meeting, which decided to postpone the party’s congress until April
or thereabout, a "group of party elders was set up to resolve the
differences within the party, and particularly to enquire into the reported row
between himself and Rawlings. The group of elders are at work, he said, so
"we should wait to see what comes out of the exercise." He still
insists that as far as he is concerned there is no rift between the two of them.
While confirming that he met his former boss at
that meeting, he pointed out that the opportunity did not arise for them to
hold any meaningful talks on their reported differences. He dismissed the allegations of misappropriating
party resources thrown at him as nonsense. Recalling that Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu
was also on the Re-organization Committee with him and they traveled around the
constituencies together, mindful not to conduct themselves in a way as to be
seen to be influencing the selection of local executives.
"In fact, we both took a conscious
decision to excuse ourselves when votes were being taken." He also claims
that Rawlings' preferred candidate, Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu was equally as
disposed as he was and did not therefore had any advantage in unfairly mounting
a pre-campaign canvassing of party delegates.
Dr Obed appears extremely frustrated by what he
considers as non-issues hijacking the necessary task of re-organising the
party, which lost power to the NPP after eight years at the helm of the
nation's affairs.
But another leading NDC member who denies that
there is nothing like a pro-party-democratization faction as opposed to a
conservative one, accuses Obed of causing the rift in the party in the first
place. The source said that Dr Obed Asamoah is falsely giving the impression
that there is a faction in the party that opposes reform. Secondly, the source
describes Obed's "premature announcement" to bring back the old
stalwarts, such as Kojo Tsikata, P.V. Obeng and Kwesi Botwe, to be what caused
the friction.
The source asked rhetorically, "where have
these men been in the last few years," questioning their loyalty to the
party. Also the source disclosed that because of serious political or personal
differences between the said former NDC leading members and the then President
Rawlings, it was not at all tactical of Dr Obed Asamoah to have made his
intentions known at the time that he did shortly before the expected Party
Congress last December. It is recalled that the founder of the party was
reportedly livid at Obed's plans, vowing to resist them at all cost.
Subsequent reports even questioned the claim
that Rawlings is the bona fide founder of the party. This, Obed dismisses as
academic. He says that Rawlings is the founder of the party, because, at least,
the former PNDC chairman was "the inspiration behind the formation of the
National Democratic congress as a political party." It was difficult not
to read into this as a sign that Dr Obed Asamoah is sincerely committed to
burying the hatch, whether imagined or real, between himself and his former
boss.
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Mikki Osei-Berko (alias Master Richard of Taxi
Driver fame) has tried to justify the brutish battering administered to the
wife by claiming that he saw the wife, who lives with the couple's children at
Asylum Down, preparing to go out to a party with another man, leaving the
children in the care of his mother-in-law. Ludicrously, the popular TV star
appears to say that it is alright for a husband to beat his wife up and
mercilessly on allegations of adultery.
Ironically, friend's of the wife have rebutted
his claim, accusing him instead of having an extra-marital affair with a Ghana
Airways employee. They also query how then can he justify previous violence
against the wife, especially during her pregnancy?
Following the publication in The Statesman on
Wednesday, he could be heard on two Accra airwaves, arrogantly implying the
wife was having an extra-marital affair while somewhat oddly claiming to have
settled the matter amicably. The wife's father who visited The Statesman's
office on Wednesday is adamant that only after his dead body would the daughter
return to a man with a temper more associated with boxer Mike Tyson's treatment
to ex-wife, Robin Givens.
Whether Osei-Berko's conciliatory gestures
amount to a mere gimmick to save face or a genuine sign of remorse may be
speculative, but what is clear is that the story has brought to the fore the
worrying patriarchal culture that sees women becoming silent prisoners of
torture in their matrimonial enclaves.
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Chris Churcher versus Ameyaw Akumfi
When in
the process of putting his team together, President John Kufuor paired Prof
Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi and Ms Christine Churcher at the Ministry of
Education, making the Prof. the substantive minister and the latter a junior
with responsibility for primary, secondary and girl-child education, critical
analysts, especially those privy to the internal politics within the NPP, knew
for sure that the recipe for chaos, or if you like, an Israeli-Palestinian kind
of co-existence had been created.
The potential for conflict was increased by the
fact that the substantive minister, the Prof was seen as an outsider being
elevated over an indigene of the NPP, or, if you like, a Gentile being favoured
to the detriment of a Jew.
NPP insiders disclosed to the Chronic that
though Ms Churcher was qualified in all respects to be the substantive
minister, she was bypassed because of her unbending loyalty to the
Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Nana Akufo Addo, and some
uncomplimentary pronouncements she had made about candidate J.A. Kufuor in the
campaigns before the NPP congress in 1998.
The latent antagonism between the two ministers
burst into the open over the transfer of a former Director of Finance and
Administration of the ministry, Mr Grant Essilfie.
Chronicle has learnt that just after assumption
of office early last year, Prof Akumfi unilaterally made an attempt to transfer
the aforementioned director because of his perceived close relationship with
the former Minister of Education, Ekwow Spio Garbrah at the time when he (Prof
Akumfi) was the Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES).
Ms Churcher, upon hearing the news, took great
exception to the minister’s perceived high-handed stance over the matter,
saying she was resolved to work with any civil servant who was not involved in
any fishy deal in the past, Chronicle gathered.
She therefore instituted an internal probe into
the matter and found out that the said director did not misconduct himself,
neither was he involved in anything that would warrant his transfer.
Chronicle can report that Ms Churcher went
further to retain Mr Essilfie under her purview at the ministry much to the
chagrin of the Professor. This development widened the chasm, which already
existed between the two ministers of state.
One source of conflict between Ms Churcher and
Prof Akumfi, Chronicle learnt, is the issue of who has the final say in matters
involving secondary education insiders told Chronicle that while Prof Akumfi
maintains that as the substantive Minister of Education he can wade into any
matter involving education in Ghana. Ms Churcher insists she has the final say
in basic and secondary education matters.
Chronicle learnt, for instance, that the
headmistress of Mfantsman Secondary School at Saltpond is still at post in
spite of the numerous reported lapses in her administration because Ms
Churcher, who is an old girl of that school insists she should be there.
Sources close to the Castle told Chronicle that
the President, having been hinted of the friction between the two ministers,
mandated the then Chief of Staff, Jake Obetsebi- Lamptey, to impress upon the
two to smoke the peace pipe.
The soft-spoken ex-Chief of Staff summoned them
to a meeting to defuse the brewing tension. According to the Chronicle sources
at the Ministry of Education, the meeting, which took place at the Castle, only
succeeded in defining the respective roles of the minister, but did not close
the widening differences between them.
Chronicle gathered that the two have returned
to the status quo after resolving to turn a new leaf and work in concert to
improve both the image and the performance of the ministry.
An insider hinted Chronicle that there is a
complete lack of administrative cohesion at the ministry at the moment because
of this potentially explosive tension at the place. According to him, the rift,
if not resolved, can dilute and whittle-down JAK’s efforts at reforming, and
strengthening the already battered educational sector.
“No meaningful gains can be achieved in an
atmosphere of bickering and squabbles,” an insider bemoaned to the Chronicle.
NPP insiders told Chronicle that when late last year the Statesman, a pro-NPP
paper owned by Nana Akufo-Addo, launched a diatribe against Prof Ameyaw Akumfi,
describing him as ‘disgraceful’, they knew it was part of war manoeuvres.
When Chronicle contacted Prof Akumfi-Ameyaw for
his reaction to the matter, he conceded that there had been a minor
disagreement between himself and Ms Churcher over the transfer of a former
staff of the ministry.
In a very receptive and accommodating tone, he
said he had no reason to believe that there is strife between them, after being
reconciled by the affable ex-Chief of Staff, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey.
When Chronicle contacted Ms Churcher on phone
on Thursday after almost four days efforts, she declined to comment saying she
is sick. She however, appealed to Chronicle to wait for her to recuperate and
assume her official duties on Tuesday before she can give any reaction adding
that the issue is delicate and needs more attention.
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Chronicle investigations at the Korle-Bu
Teaching Hospital, Accra and among family members in La have revealed that the
last surviving member of the Big Six of the Gold Coast and Ghana politics, Dr
Ako Adjei, now slightly over 90 years, is in critical condition and may be on
his way home.
Dr Ako Adjei is reputed to have recommended and
brought down Dr Kwame Nkrumah from the United States of America in the late
1940s to be the Secretary General of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC),
the premier political party then in existence and negotiating for the
independence of Gold Coast.
Dr Ako Adjei had turned down the offer on the
basis that he was in the middle of his law studies. He later came down and
joined the UGCC, together with the rest, to wrest power from the British
colonial government.
Dr Ako Adjei later joined the Convention
People’s Party (CPP) formed by Dr Nkrumah, who broke away from the UGCC, to
speed up the fight for independence.
Ako Adjei himself was later arrested by Dr
Kwame Nkrumah’s government and charged with treason and was in prison till the
February 24, 1966 coup d’etat led by ‘Okatakyie’ Afrifa and Major K.A. Kotoka.
The last time Ako Adjei appeared in any high
profile gathering was when he attended the senior citizens get-together
organized by ex-President Jerry Rawlings.
Efforts by the Chronicle to do an eleventh hour
interview with the last of the Big Six failed as relatives and caretakers at Mr
Ako Adjei’s La residence literally begged the reporter to forget about it.
Did Dr Ako Adjei make a vow to keep silent
about anything political as far as Ghana politics was concerned? On the eve of
Dr Ako Adjei’s release in 1966 from the Nsawam Prisons, he had stated after a
terse disruption of his ordeal as a political prisoner “mini ma ke” (“what can
I say?”) the people of La and well-wishers then present replied “Okee no ko.”
“You have nothing to say.”
Dr Ako Adjei has lived through the governments
of Nkrumah, Generals Ankrah and Afrifa, Busia, Acheampong, Akuffo, Rawlings,
Limann, Rawlings up to the present Kufuor administration, keeping to that vow,
and refusing to talk anything politics.
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According to the victims, the robbers who were
wielding pistols and shot-guns, blocked the road with a big tree and branches.
Mr Isaac Appiah, the driver of the bus said that the robbers ordered the
passengers to get down at their road block at about 12 midnight after which
they searched them (passengers) and took away their moneys.
The victims are Jerry Asamani, of Wa, $1,100,
Madam Issah, Nima ¢700,000 and CFA 20,000, Mohammed Seidu, Tamale ¢25 million,
Maame Kayeba, Tamale ¢500,000, Asana Dunaton, Ghana Education Service, Bawku,
¢650,000 and Amina Musah, Nima, ¢300,000.
The rest are Awudu Seidu, Accra, ¢125,000,
Helena Aduom, Prison Headquarters, Accra, ¢200,000 and David James Abanga,
National Youth Council, Bolga, ¢500,000 and a One-Touch phone number
020-00154119.
The Bolgatanga District Police Commander,
Superintendent Emmanuel Amamoo, confirmed the story when contacted.
Meanwhile, no arrests have been made and the
case has been referred to the Regional CID for further investigation.
It is recalled that a similar incident occurred
at the same place two months ago when a Bawku-bound bus was attacked and the
passengers robbed.
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The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has
asked the Ministry of Education to put on hold a report submitted to it
recently by the committee appointed to restructure the students loan scheme.
The Union explained that it viewed the content
of the report and its implementation as a subtle attempt to contravene Article
25 (Ic) of the 1992 Constitution.
The article states: “All persons shall have the
right to equal educational opportunities and facilities and with the view to
achieving the full realization of that right, higher education shall be made
equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means
and in particular, by progressive introduction of free education.
Making the call at a news conference in Accra
on Thursday, Mr Edward Bawa, NUGS President, recalled the terms of reference of
the report which among others, indicated government’s intention to establish a
company to administer a loan scheme that would reflect relative cost of various
programmes.”
By that extension he said, students would
contract loans relative to the cost of the programmes of study and subsequently
use such monies to pay for their training, adding that, “this is nothing short
of payment of tuition fees. He said the report woefully failed to state a
proposed interest rate to regulate it.
“We are therefore, tempted to conclude that the
interest rate will be pegged too high and increased too often to the detriment
of the poor Ghanaian student.”
The Union, he said, also condemned a section of
the report, which recommended to government to appeal to embassies to demand
certificates of clearance issued by the Student Loan Company from graduates
wishing to travel outside a way of minimizing borrow defaults.
That recommendation, according to him,
contravenes Article 21(g) of the 1992, constitution, which states in part that,
“all persons shall have the right to freedom of movement.” Mr Bawa, however,
acknowledged that the scheme was bedeviled with a number of problems principal
among them being the low loan recovery rate.
He suggested that at most five per cent of the
beneficiaries’ salary should be deducted at source upon employment.
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