General News of Friday, 23 July 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Nelson Maxwell Acquah has been explaining why he withdrew from his PhD programme• He denied allegations of his arrest by Interpol• Acquah explained he withdrew from his programme following his election as a student leaderNelson Maxwell Acquah, a Ghanaian PhD student, who is being denied travel back to the UK by a Ghanaian policeman, has explained why he withdrew from his PhD programme. Nelson Maxwell Acquah has vehemently denied allegations that he has been arrested by Interpol at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra. Acquah told GhanaWeb’s Ekow Arthur-Aidoo that following his election as the students’ president of Stirling University, he had to withdraw from his PhD programme because the conditions attached to the position was that he had to withdraw from the programme and work for the student body for a year before continuing with his studies. Acquah explained, “when I won and started the presidency, they [Stirling University] wrote a letter to me that my funding had been suspended. I was in the school on a scholarship; so not knowing that, I couldn’t suspend one year out of the three years.

Source: GhanaWeb July 23, 2021 08:37 UTC