The National Development Planning Committee has proposed the setting up of a diaspora fund to support the education of Ghanaians living abroad.
The Director General of the Committee, Dr. Nii Moi Thompson explains such a fund will be a means of creating opportunity for Ghanaians living abroad to be beneficiaries of the policies and programmes which are geared toward providing free education for Ghanaians.
Dr Thompson was giving a lecture on the Ghana’s 40-year development plan at a post-budget review workshop Saturday for members of parliament, former ministers, civil society groups among other key stakeholders.The maiden post budget review was to afford the participants the opportunity to scrutinise the government’s policies to identify those that are feasible as well as ones that will benefit the country.
Dr Thompson explained that the 40-year development plan will at a point in its implementation will establish a diaspora fund for the education of Ghanaians living in the diaspora.
But some members of parliament within the majority and minority caucus are not in total favour of the policy.
They argued the country has many pressing needs and such a fund will be a burden on the national purse.
The MPs, however, believe it will not be out of place in the long future.
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