The Minister of State in charge of Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has said even though she received a Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) scholarship for a training programme at Harvard Kennedy School, the “tone” of media publications on the matter, “smacks of an attempt to smear” her reputation as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome Kwabenya.
Apart from Ms Safo, the other appointees named by the Auditor-General’s report as beneficiaries include the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), Dr Prince Armah, who issued a statement saying he was deserving of it; Education Minister Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, who also issued a statement saying he benefited from it in 2014 and not as a minister of state; and the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations Ignatius Barfour Awuah, who is yet to issue a statement on the matter.
The revelation has generated outrage among some Ghanaians on social media.
Reacting to the publications, Ms Sarfo said her attention has been drawn to the publications by various media outlets to the “effect that I have received a scholarship from the Ghana Education Trust Fund to study at the Harvard Kennedy School in the United States in 2014.”
She said the “tone of the said publication” was “erroneous and smacks of an attempt to smear my reputation as a Member of Parliament and Minister of State and box me into a self-serving public official.”
The Deputy Majority Leader of Parliament also indicated that the purpose of receiving the GETFund support, “was to attend a programme at the Harvard Kennedy School to enable me to serve my constituents, parliament and nation better” and urged the public to “disregard the said publication and treat it with the contempt it deserves.”
Source: Class News
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I don't think this Safo woman is matured enough. You take advantage of funds meant for the poor and this is your explanation? I heard you collected lots of award during your University days, but it seems you only got it right on paper. Be wise!!
Both followers of NDC & NPP have not used their god given common sense to vote for right characters to lead us in parliament. She is a young beautiful lady, very well educated and a daughter of a popular reverend minister. Unfortunately when someone of that standard tends to have kids with a married man /wedded with so many kids, then there is something obviously wrong somewhere in our society. No wonder there is backlash because we no longer place emphasis on our values/character but rather academic ladder. There are many more, more often we dont vote for people of substance to represent us rather vote for immaturity, very myopic, infantile and substandard characters No wonder we have a sitting MP publicly telling people to shiit in plastic bags. Now everything is upside down. Are we growing taller as a nation or we are missing the mark to grow wiser. INDEED THINGS HAVE FALLEN APART- 1000% TO KOFI KINATTA
Too infantile, naive and immature to be an MP. So many bad issues concerning her. Never heard any mature speech or deeds from her before. Looks like shes well trained by her baby father. Self1sh and basaaaa.
to serve who better? selfish idiotic ***barred word***. I hope the speaker's son beats her at the primaries. Freeloaders galore!!!!!!
SHAAAME
ADWOA, YOU GOT IT WRONG. YOU ARE TOO EXPENSIVE TO BE INVOLVING YOURSELF IN THESE CHEAP THINGS.
TOO MANY ISSUES WITH THIS LADY, I THINK SHE SHOULD JUST QUIT POLITICS. SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER OF NOT GETTING INTO POLITICS AT ALL.
your better serving sef dis mtccheeew