Kebbi students stranded in India

– It’s not true — Commissioner Kebbi State medical students enrolled at a university in India on government scholarship are said to be stranded because of alleged failure to pay their fees. The students had in an open letter to Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu titled ‘Call for Attention’ and signed by their leaders, Nura Samaila […]

– It’s not true — Commissioner

Kebbi State medical students enrolled at a university in India on government scholarship are said to be stranded because of alleged failure to pay their fees.

The students had in an open letter to Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu titled ‘Call for Attention’ and signed by their leaders, Nura Samaila and Allyassa U. Ibrahim, claimed that because of alleged refusal of the state scholarship board to approve their files, it was difficult for them to settle their school fees. 

The letter said the university authorities in India have confiscated their credentials because of their unsettled dues. 

In the letter, they called on the state governor to urgently look into their situation as their passports would expire soon. One of the students said only few of them whose families raised and remitted their fees after waiting for a long time have received their credentials while the majority who could not pay, were stranded.  

When contacted on the issue, however, the Commissioner for Higher Education, Alhaji Abdullahi Mai-Gari Dakingari, debunked the claims saying, the students could not talk of being stranded in India when they were already in Nigeria.

He said, “These students you are talking about were in my office this morning. I have already tabled their issue before the governor and I am only waiting for his approval. How can they claim they are in India when they have finished their studies and are already in Kebbi? 

 “What remains is for government to pay them their upkeep and the money they spent on their flight back to the country,” he stated.