UK High Commissioner alleges scholarship funds were mismanaged under previous government

Responding to a planned protest by some Ghanaian scholarship students in the UK over delayed payments, Ms Benson argued that the current administration inherited substantial financial obligations from the previous government.

She alleged that more than £37 million in tuition fees and stipends accumulated between 2020 and 2025, while also questioning the award of a government scholarship to a 16-year-old to attend a private secondary school in the UK at a reported cost exceeding £56,000.

According to her, in one case, the spouse and three children of a beneficiary each received £8,160 in addition to the scholarship awarded to the student, while the family's airfare alone reportedly cost GH¢90,000.