As reported by Sudan Tribune
NAIROBI (TrustLaw) – A parliamentary inquiry will be launched in South Sudan to investigate the alleged theft of money intended for student scholarships, the Sudan Tribune reported on Sunday.
The newspaper quoted Education Minister Peter Adwok Nyaba as saying that an official in the ministry of higher education had been jailed and asked to pay back $222,996.
"There is going to be a lot of changes in the way scholarship and tuition fees are paid out,” the paper quoted Nyaba as saying,
The government has stopped funding tertiary education for South Sudanese students overseas.
Only 15 percent of adults in South Sudan are literate.
The young country has the world’s lowest enrolment rate for secondary education, with just 4 percent of children of secondary-school age enrolled.
Only 46 percent of South Sudan’s children of primary-school age are in school, the second lowest enrolment rate globally.
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