The lawyer for a journalist listed as a GETFund scholarship beneficiary has asked management of the fund how Ramana Shareef’s name appeared in the Auditor-General’s report since she never got the money.

In a letter to GETFund, Samson Lardy Anyenini said Ms. Shareef “did apply for scholarship after gaining admission to pursue MSc Communication for Innovation and Development at the University of Reading.”

But GETFund after issuing an award letter which stated that the tuition fee and living allowance would be paid, failed to do so.

This forced the former Metro TV journalist to defer her course twice, the lawyers wrote.

The University of Reading has also confirmed that it never received the tuition fees.

However, the Auditor-General’s performance audit report of GETFund scholarship from 2012 to 2018 listed the journalist as having had her fees and living allowance totaling £22,730.00 paid by GETFund.

“Kindly explain the development, your secretariat being the source of the primary information/documentation for said audit Report.

“Your explanation will guide further action by our client over the embarrassment caused her,” the counsel to Ms. Shareef wrote.

The journalist herself, in a Facebook post denied receiving the GETFund money, adding “So this country called Ghana, why at all are we so wicked to ourselves. You put my name on a list of scholarship beneficiaries, which you never paid! So who took the money?”