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

Hmmm! Nigeria e go better!

I know that this is an ELECTION and HEIGHTENED political times where scoring cheap political points is the order of the day so I went through the comments section of the story and I got the real gist...