The Kano state Government through DG, Media and Communication, Kano state Government House, Salihu Tanko Yakasai, has responded to the allegation by 37 indigenes of the state undergoing B.sc Nursing at Monsourah University in Egypt, that they were forced to lose a complete semester due to perceived neglect by the state Government.




As unfortunate as it is to keep flogging the issue of withdrawing these students, and as much as I am not comfortable with how social media platforms have become the stage where vested interests stoke the fire, it has become important for me to come back again one more time, to give an update on the recent revelations by the students that the state government was responsible for their losing of a semester. According to them, the resultant effect of government’s action affected their CGPA.

It is true that they requested to be transferred to October 6 University, Egypt. This was after they sent a letter to the scholarship board in December 2015 (find a copy of the letter attached) were they complained bitterly about the deplorable living conditions they were in, ranging from horrible accommodation in slum, to living in uncompleted buildings, terrible and unhygienic environment hazardous to their health (photos of all these are also attached as sent by the students).

Other problems bedevilling the students include the issue of lack of residence permit, which means they’ve been staying in Egypt illegally for 10 months (as of the time they wrote the letter in December 2015) and above all, the issue of ‘non-specialization’ in their studies. They were told by the university that the government had an agreement for them to only study Bsc Nursing with no specialization which wasn’t what the students were told before they left for Egypt.



It was based on these that they wanted to be transferred to October 6 University, a better institution with good ranking and conducive learning environment both on campus and in their accommodation facility.

The scholarship board briefed the state government and it was agreed that the student be allowed to transfer to October 6 University, which they did. The scholarship board tried all that it could for Mansourah University to release these students but they refused. There was little the board could do since the agreement was signed in 2014 with an agent, DeltaMed, who blatantly refused to release the student’s results to enable them move to October 6 University. After some couple of months without making any meaningful progress, the students had to be returned back to Mansourah University in order not to waste more time since it was evident that the agent Deltamed was not willing to allow the transfer to happen.

The board still took it upon themselves to return to Mansourah University management to work out a plan which will ensure that the students catch up with what they lost and the university decided to offer summer semester to them to make up for what they lost. Despite all these, 37 of them kept performing woefully despite several warnings.



With these facts, I wonder how the blame for them losing a semester will fall on the shoulders of the government despite all it did to ensure that their academic status and well-being improved. Also, why didn’t all the 154 students fail their exams but only 37 of them if it was due to loss of one semester? How come no one is pointing accusing fingers to those that sent them to such a dilapidated living conditions in a slum despite the exorbitant amount expended by the state government on each student? May I also add that Mansourah University vehemently refused to deal directly with Kano state government but through the agent, Deltamed. I wonder why! And your guess is as good as mine.

These problems are not peculiar to just one country. Consultants were used (instead of official government agency) in the initial stage, who milked the state dry and enrolled students in substandard institutions and accommodated them in filthy dormitories to maximize their profit. The story in India is the same, so also Sudan, Uganda and so on.

The administration of Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje OFR has tried its best to shy away from probing the monumental corruption perpetrated under the guise of sending our brothers and sisters abroad in order not put their study in jeopardy.



It gladdens my heart that as at the end of July 2017, exactly 1,463 students out of over 2,000 inherited by the Ganduje administration have successfully completed their studies and returned home. We are also expecting some to finish this year and the remaining will finish next year InSha Allah. A total of N4.3billion has been expended on both local and foreign students in the last 2yrs by the Ganduje administration, which shows his commitment to securing the future of coming generation.

https://dailynigerian.com/opinion/replying-the-37-kano-nursing-students-in-egypt-by-salihu-tanko-yakasai/

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=484838488532498&id=274218946261121


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Ok

when will the north stop disgracing the zoo

is this necessary again?..... at least dem don dey home already