Mandago says Finland education programme was not scholarship

The former governor who pioneered the programme that has been marred with controversy said registering the programme as a scholarship was meant to make things easy for the students.

"Registering it as a scholarship would enable students evade hurdles including requirements of producing bank statements and we would also get the advantage of guaranteed visas. We are revealing this information today because a lot of information is now in the public domain," he said.