Ghanaian PhD student loses scholarship in the US after LGBTQ activist wrote petition against him
A Ghanaian PhD student studying abroad has had his scholarship withdrawn after a member of the country’s LGBTQ community wrote a petition alleging that he was a violent homophobe.
The student, identified as Derrick Boadi Sakyi, reportedly persecuted members of the LGBTQ community when he was in his home country, Ghana and reportedly exhibited this on his Twitter handle.
A Ghanaian LGBTQ activist, identified as Papa Kojo has now taken to Twitter to gloat over the withdrawal of the scholarship of his compatriot.
Papa Kojo claimed responsibility for the petition that truncated the scholarship of Sakyi.
Narrating how it all happened, Papa Kojo said Sakyi sent him a death threat on account of his LGBTQ advocacy and he decided to check his profile to know who he was.
It was then he found out that he just started his PhD program in Biological Science at Ohio University in the United States of America.
Papa Kojo said a further search of the student on LinkedIn revealed that he was on a scholarship that was meant for the minority groups, including LGBTQIA+ community members, applicants from the Global South, first-generation students, and people with disabilities.
Papa Kojo said he then wrote a petition reporting Sakyi’s anti LGBTQ activities to the scholarship secretariat with evidence to back up his claims.
The activist attached a copy of the petition he wrote to the institution. He disclosed that his petition resulted in the revocation of Sakyi’s scholarship.
Read his post: “One guy sent me death threats and I just checked his profile. He’s been inciting hate for years…in one of his most recent tweet, he confessed setting up gay men to be beaten and blackmailed and said if Ama allows him to correctively rape her, he’ll get her to the bar.
“I’ve found his name and details on LinkedIn and he moved to the US two weeks ago to start a PhD in Ohio. I want everyone to hold on tight because this TL is about to get bloody messy af in the coming days. ?”
