{"id":449243,"date":"2017-12-22T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T08:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/withdraw-free-shs-funds-from-scholarship-secretariat-minority\/"},"modified":"2017-12-22T08:25:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T08:25:50","slug":"withdraw-free-shs-funds-from-scholarship-secretariat-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/22\/withdraw-free-shs-funds-from-scholarship-secretariat-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"Withdraw Free SHS funds from Scholarship Secretariat \u2013 Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 22 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-22<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/76770445.295.jpg\" alt=\"Haruna Minority\" title=\"Haruna Minority\" width=\"295\" height=\"143\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513931150_249_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Minority in Parliament has described as illegal, government\u2019s decision to allow the Scholarship Secretariat to administer funds for the implementation of the free senior high school policy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, the educational sector laws, specifically the Act governing the operations of the Ghana Education Service, have been breached with the allocation of GH\u00a21.2 billion to the secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>The government said the allocation was made because of the good track record of the secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>But debating the budget estimates of the office of government machinery, Haruna Iddrisu said the GES under the Ministry of Education should be responsible for the Free SHS allocation \u201cif we are respecting the laws of Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scholarship Secretariat deals with scholarships. This [the Free SHS policy], is a major government policy of providing bursaries to ensure free secondary education\u2026 the scholarship secretariat must focus on Cuban students, Ghanaians students in Moscow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Minority Leader further argued that \u201cthe President swore to uphold the laws of Ghana and the GES Act is part of the laws of Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Mr Idrissu said President Nana Akufo-Addo must \u201cdemonstrate respect to it [the GES Act], and send that GH\u00a2 1.2 billion back to the Ministry of Education and back to the GES for proper supervision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The GES Act states that \u201cthe Service shall be responsible for the implementation of approved national policies and programmes relating to pre-tertiary education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Service is mandated to provide and oversee basic education, senior secondary education, technical education and special education.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 63 updated by: 63 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 22 December 2017 Source: citifmonline.com 2017-12-22 Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu The Minority in Parliament has described as illegal, government\u2019s decision to allow the Scholarship Secretariat to administer funds for the implementation of the free senior high school policy. 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