​GRASAG to demonstrate over unpaid graduate thesis and bursary grant

Published by: Acquah Solomon Kobina
Time​: 12:30

The National Secretariat of the Graduate Students’ Association of Ghana (GRASAG) has threatened to hit the street over unpaid graduate thesis and bursary grant for the 2016/2017 academic year.

According to the group in a press release signed and presented by the President Kwame Bonah Osafo-Ampomah, it expressed total dissatisfaction on the turn of events at the Scholarships Secretariat in relation to
the Graduate Thesis and Bursary Grant for the 2016/2017 academic year.

It further disclosed that the group reliably informed by the Secretariat that all beneficiary institutions should collate bank account details of recommended applicants to the Secretariat for direct payment of the Thesis and Bursary Grants.

"Though the new mode of payment is ideal, we strongly believe it will only further delay the monies already in arrears. This is not the right
time for this to and fro movement of the 2016/2017 bursary and thesis grant", it stressed.

The group moreover put on records that GRASAG, as a major stakeholder was not consulted
before the sudden change in mode of payment; which it believe is not congenial to the
graduate student, at this material moment.

"The National Executive Committee (NEC) on several occasions met with the Registrar and the entire management team of the Scholarships Secretariat and this mode of payment never
came up in our discussions, we therefore don’t agree", it charged

In an interview with the editor in chief of 24hrs media group Ltd, Africanewsarena.blogspot.com, Mr Kesse Alfred, the President of GRASAG therefore stated that the management is giving the government  and the secretariat up to Monday, 15th of January, 2018 to pay all recommended applicants or else they will hit the street with demonstration.

"Graduate students have not been treated fairly and need to be treated with utmost respect," he lamented.

Source: kesse Alfred/Africanewsarena.blogspot.com