Coalition of aggrieved Graduate Students Association of Ghana has warned the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat (GSS) to as matter of urgency pay the affected students of the bursaries support scheme since the current situation was having a serious strain on the beneficiary students’ conditions and academic performance in the Public Universities.

According to the Coalition of aggrieved Graduate Students Association of Ghana, they are saddened by the level of harm this late disbursement of funds is having on graduate students in the public universities, saying, "it is immeasurable as the majority of the students who solely depend on the bursary are unable to undertake academic work which impedes the completion of their programme of study on schedule because they are not able to work on their mandatory thesis and dissertations."

In a release copied to Sompaonline.com, the coalition further posited that, “We are compelled to use this medium to trumpet the chronic anguish of the entirety of Local Presidents of Graduate Students’ Association of Ghana (GRASAG) across all the public universities in Ghana against the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat (GSS) with regard to its total nonchalant attitude and refusal to disburse the national bursaries to our members. 

"We, the coalition of local GRASAG Presidents across the public Universities in Ghana as an association, have observed that the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat has shown bad faith and tone-deaf posturing in response to the demands of Graduate Students thus far; therefore, we are giving the government and management of the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat two weeks to do the necessary before any inconvenience occur. We reiterate that we are ever ready to pursue all legitimate measures possible to ensure that all outstanding payments are made and the portal is made available for members to register and their due bursaries paid to them as soon as possible."

"We the coalition of local GRASAG Presidents across the country in unison demand as follows: That, (a) the GSS take immediate steps without to delay pay outstanding bursaries of 2020/2021 to ALL Public University Graduate Students by March 7, 2023. (b) the GSS pays ALL outstanding bursaries owed to individual Association by March 7, 2023 (c) the GSS as a matter of urgency should take steps to ensure the bursary registration portal is opened for students to register for the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 academic years by March 14, 2023", the statement added.

Source: Sompaonline.com/Asante-Yeboah Benedict