The Campus Association of Students with Special Needs has expressed delight at the introduction of free tertiary education for persons with disabilities by John Dramani Mahama’s administration.

This decision was announced in the 2025 Budget Statement, delivered by Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson on Tuesday, March 11.

Previously, students in this category received bursaries for the payment of academic and residential fees through the Scholarship Secretariat.

In an interview with Citi News, the President of the Campus Association of Students with Special Needs, Godsway Dzornu, expressed hope that payments under the new initiative would be processed more swiftly than those under the Scholarship Secretariat.

“This initiative, if implemented, will go a long way to help us as special needs students because sometimes our needs are expensive, which makes caregivers and parents find it difficult to support us. And then also, sometimes the Scholarship Secretariat do not release the bursary on time.

“Even last year, we were not able to get our bursary because the issue was that there were no enough funds, whereas this one, not yet implemented, I feel it should be better than the earlier system from the Scholarship Secretariat.”

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