Four Ghanaian students have been banned and deported from the United Kingdom for allegedly forging documents to obtain scholarships to study.
The four Ghanaians, Andy Kwesi Enos (University of Reading), Esther Tieku (University of Kent), Priscilla Omari Konadu (University of East Anglia) and Gifty Appoh (University of Greenwich), were discovered to have presented fake documents to their Universities leading to the school’s withdrawal of their tier 4 visas and deportation.
The Registrar of the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat, Kingsley Agyemang, has cautioned persons who present fake documents to obtain scholarships to desist from doing so, or risk facing the law. He also stated that acts like this go a long way to tarnish the image of the country and its president.
The four students have since been deported and banned from entering the United Kingdom for the next 10 years and are currently in Ghana aiding with investigations.
Mr Agyeman made it known that the scholarship secretariat is able to fish out persons who are engaged in this act through their tight system and alerting the Universities where they have been enrolled in.
He went on to reveal that, some unscrupulous people who attempt to lure others in believing they can help them acquire scholarships have also been arrested and handed over to the CID and BNI.
Mr Agyeman stated that; “To mention, the UK alone for the 2019/2020 Academic Year, we had complaints of people issuing out fake scholarship award letters to suspecting applicants. They were able to get away through the visa and went to UK. But, because of the system we’ve put in place, no outlay of cash was paid to them.”
