Chairman of Parliament's Education Committee, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe, has raised critical concerns about the proposed National Scholarship Authority Bill, questioning whether it truly reforms Ghana's scholarship system or merely shifts control from one political group to another.
Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Thursday, July 17, 2025, Nortsu-Kotoe questioned the structure of the new board that would oversee the scholarship system. "The new bill is simply transferring power from one group of executives to another group of executives," he said. "The board will comprise the Ministers of Education, Foreign Affairs, the Attorney General, and others.
So is it just a transfer of power over who benefits from scholarships from one group of executives to another?" He warned that if the bill doesn't introduce real change, it risks repeating past mistakes. "If you do that, you will be doing the same thing and expecting different results, and you will not get different results," he added.
His comments come as Parliament works to pass the National Scholarship Authority Bill before the end of the week.
