Bayelsa students in Ghana Varsity barred from writing exams, hostels

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Bayelsa students in Ghana Varsity barred from writing exams, hostels

Bayelsa State students studying at King’s University College, Accra, Ghana, have been prevented from writing their examinations as well as being chased out of the institution’s hostels, The PUNCH has learnt.

The revelation is coming more than three weeks after the Bayelsa State Government said that it had approved the payment of sundry fees for its stranded students studying abroad.

The government had on November 24, 2016, indicated that Governor Seriake d!ckson released £300,000 and $450,000 for the payment of tuition for students of the state on scholarship abroad.

The Commissioner for Education, Mr. Markson Fefegha, was quoted then as saying that the release of the funds, despite the sharp decline in the revenue accruing to the state, was a show of the government’s commitment to the education of its people.

The commissioner had said the release of £250,000 was made to offset tuition and other fees of Bayelsa students studying for their PhD degrees in the United Kingdom.

He had also said the sum of $150,000 was approved for Bayelsa students studying at the Lincoln University in the United States, as well as the payment if $40,000 to some Bayelsa students studying in Ghana.

But The PUNCH leant on Saturday that students of KUC in Ghana were still stranded.
A final year student of Human Resources Management of the institution said their school fees had not been paid.

The student, who did not want her name mentioned because of fear of victimisation, said because of the development, they (students) were not allowed to participate in the ongoing examinations in the school.