{"id":1152752,"date":"2022-07-19T08:44:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T08:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/19\/are-politicians-an-atm-employment-or-scholarship-agency-kofi-asare-blast-attitude-of-ghanaians\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T08:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T08:44:57","slug":"are-politicians-an-atm-employment-or-scholarship-agency-kofi-asare-blast-attitude-of-ghanaians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/19\/are-politicians-an-atm-employment-or-scholarship-agency-kofi-asare-blast-attitude-of-ghanaians\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Politicians An ATM, Employment Or Scholarship Agency? &#8211; Kofi Asare Blast Attitude Of Ghanaians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The Executive Director of Africa Educational Watch (EduWatch) has quizzed whether politicians are ATM, employment or scholarship agencies. He is of the view that Ghanians shouldn&#8217;t<span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\"> support a politician because of a personal job, cash or scholarship benefit but rather support a system that benefits all.<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/a9824ff32e554828b6e7c53747495d71\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Tuesday, 19th July 2022, he wrote;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not vote for him because he did not get me a foreign scholarship when i needed one\u2019-a delegate friend at the just ended election.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not vote for my MP again. He failed to get me enlisted into the police service when i approached him\u2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kofi Asare quizzed that do you vote for people to steal state scholarships and job opportunities for you?\u00a0\u00a0He said that the transactional nature of our democracy vexes him. It breeds hypocrisy, bigotry, and corruption.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/9dd541a9b09344c2ac9bca70e8ce3a2a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Are politicians an ATM, employment or scholarship\u00a0agency<\/strong>?\u00a0&#8221; Kofi Asare asked.<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel when the system is corrupted just to give you an SHS admission in a school your ward did not deserve?\u00a0\u00a0If this is why you support\u00a0a politician, you are an enemy of the state.\u00a0\u00a0He asked.<\/p>\n<p>He advised Ghanaians to know that, anytime the system is corrupted to give you an unmerited advantage, another persons genuine right to that opportunity is denied them.\u00a0Would you be happy if you were the other person?\u00a0He asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look at what our attitudes have turned public sector recruitments into? Look at scholarships? Just look!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Democracy is not a transaction your survival should depend on. Ours is definitely not democracy.\u00a0No country ever developed without a meritocracy.&#8221; Kofi Asare lamented.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Currentworldnews (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAfrica Educational Watch<br \/>\nEduWatch<br \/>\nEmployment Or Scholarship Agency<br \/>\nGhanians<br \/>\nKofi Asare<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Director of Africa Educational Watch (EduWatch) has quizzed whether politicians are ATM, employment or scholarship agencies. He is of the view that Ghanians shouldn&#8217;t support a politician because of a personal job, cash or scholarship benefit but rather support a system that benefits all. In a post shared on his official Facebook page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1152753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[83,8178,20816,8392,4623,4129,834,1088,4330,3982],"class_list":["post-1152752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-agency","tag-asare","tag-atm","tag-attitude","tag-blast","tag-employment","tag-ghanaians","tag-kofi","tag-politicians","tag-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}