RIVERS STATE SPONSORED STUDENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

1st March, 2015

The executive governor of Rivers state, Moscow Road, Port Harcourt

Through,

The executive director,

Rivers state Sustainable Development Agency Port Harcourt.



Dear Sirs,

RIVERS STATE FOREIGN STUDENTS DECRY ABANDONMENT BY RIVERS STATE GOVERNMENT; OWED 5 MONTHS (NOVEMBER 2014- MARCH 2015) ALLOWANCES AND STRANDED.

I wish to humbly bring to your notice the current dilemma faced by the students sent overseas by the state government, especially those of us studying in the United Kingdom. The foreign Students on Rivers State Government scholarship via the RSSDA Scholarship scheme decry abandonment by the State government for about 5 months now. Most of us, especially those from very poor background have been evicted from our residential apartments due to inability to pay up our rents as at when due or clear the backlog, and have resorted to squatting and gallivanting in the streets of London, Manchester, Glasgow, Hull, Sunderland, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Oxford etc. in frustration.

Many others stand the risk of eviction as I write this letter. This is not the first time the Rivers State Government has fallen short of its obligations to its foreign scholars, and this is not the first time our allowances are been owed (held) for more than 5 months. It is a shame that we have had to in the past forced our families back home to send us feeding money, and the pains they go through in sending this money is unbearable. In the past, children of indigent parents have had to drop out due to their inability to cope with their studies.

As at today, some students have been forced by this unfortunate situation to take up menial jobs to cope with survival and it is not clear what the state of their studies is because they have shuttle between workplace and university. No Rivers child deserves to go through life this way and certainly not in a foreign land. Please we appeal to the Rivers State Government to release funds to the RSSDA to enable it meet its obligations to students on foreign scholarship.

Many thanks, Fubara Dennis (fubaradennis@gmail.com) University of Oxford


http://leadership.ng/news/415070/rivers-foreign-students-decry-abandonment

Make dem come shout change!

pls bear with the governor the loss of value of oil and our president that took 40% of our oil well is responsible ....we have u in mind but our hands are tired .............pls write to the president to pls return our oil wells so we can have enough money for our commitment thanks


we shall try our best to meet ur needs before the end of this month

mrvitalis:
pls bear with the governor the loss of value of oil and our president that took 40% of our oil well is responsible ....we have u in mind but our hands are tired .............pls write to the president to pls return our oil wells so we can have enough money for our commitment thanks


we shall try our best to meet ur needs before the end of this month

stupidity at its highest

Something similar happened in 2007 to students in Malaysia who were taken to a glorified secondary and when the students requested for a change, the government (Agent of change :Uncle Amaechi) connived with the school, deported some of the students.