Ibrahim Adam Posted:
AS I EARLIER PROMISED, BELOW IS WHAT I GOT FROM THE NURSING STUDENTS IN EGYPT.
Thank you so much Ibrahim Adam for giving me your time.
The issue we are dealing with actually started since last year. In January 2016 some group of students wrote a letter to the Deputy Governor Professor Hafeez Abubakr, telling him the problems students were facing regarding the school, the racism in the street--because we're the first group of black people to live in the city for long-- the issue regarding our upkeep allowances, and our problem with the agent. So, the Deputy Governor after going through the letter asked the students wether they wanted to be transferred and they answered 'Yes'. After that incident the director Scholarship board sent a message to our then president, that all the students should stop going to school till the issue of the transfer is settled. She came here on the early March, after we spent two months doing nothing, and asked us to move to October6 university in Cairo. There we spent another 3 months doing nothing while classes are still going on. By July she sent a new message that the government couldn't fulfil the condition of the transfer set by the contractor, so, we should go back to Mansoura university and continue our studies without a single problem being solved.
We returned back on late July and took some summer courses since we've already missed a semester and our GPA was calculated with 0.00 of the we semester we missed. We filed a complain to the scholarship board, to the embassy and we even told the governor about it when he visited us, but nothing was done. So, after we finished the summer courses, in December 2016 the contractor wrote a letter to the government, telling them that the students performance was very low especially the 37 students whose GPA was less than 2.00.
We heard nothing about it until April, after we already finished another semester, we read from news that the Kano state government has decided to return those 37 students on the basis of low performance. We tried to explain that it wasn't because they're not doing well, it was because of that missing semester, that's why the GPA was low. And even that, most of the students are now above 2.00 points. They're improving. They promised to investigate again and consider.
Last two weeks we heard they called the patents of the 37 students and handed them flight tickets, that they should send it to their children. The government can no longer pay for their education. The parents were disappointed and did not received the tickets.
So on Friday, without telling us, they came directly to Egypt. 3 people delegates, including the director higher education board and the permanent Secretary higher education board, with the intention to ask the university to withdraw the students and allow them to take them back home. They didn't even ask about us, or our performance. All they are asking about, are the papers of those 37 students and withdrawal approval from the university. We had a meeting with them, they told us that they personally believe it wasn't our fault, but it's government's decision, they're following orders. They promised to write a new report to the government but the next thing we see was our last year's results posted publicly online.
We are terrified right now, we're nobody's sons and daughters. If those students return to Nigeria without completing their degree, most of them won't have the courage to restart again. Some of them have already started some higher institutions in Nigeria before acquiring the scholarship, and now they want bring them back with nothing.
Please Sir, help us. Speak up for us. We've faith if people like you speak out, the lives of those students could be saved.
Note: the GPA system is 4.00 maximum, unlike Nigerian system of 5.00
Thank you so much Ibrahim. This is what happened.


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