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I Don’t Regret GETFUND Scholarship, I’ll Grab It Again If The Chance Comes – NAPO
Energy Minister designate, Matthew Opoku Prempeh, also known as NAPO has indicated that he’s had no regrets grabbing the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) scholarship in 2016.
According to him, he was not the only beneficiary of the scheme and will not think twice to do it again if the opportunity comes.
“Members of this House [Parliament] access even on that particular course [in 2016]. I went with someone on the Majority side [at the time.] I do not regret it, it wasn’t done for just me and if I get the same opportunity, I will do it again,” NAPO said during his vetting on Friday.
Meanwhile when reports were out in 2016 that NAPO was enjoying GETFUND scholarship, he issued a statement denying the reports.
Mr Opoku said the claims were “false and calculated to cause embarrassment and public ridicule.”
According to him, he was only a “recipient of GETFund award in 2014 to participate in a 3-week certificate program at the Kennedy School of Govt, Harvard University.”
However, his response to a question on the subject asked by Alhassan Suhunyini, NDC MP for Tamale North, is in sharp contrast to the statement he issued last year when the issue made headlines.
