OPEN LETTER TO:
His Excellency,
Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan OON,
Executive Governor,
Delta State.
Your Excellency,
POST GRADUATE
SCHOLASHIP AWARD IN DELTA STATE: AN APPEAL/CLARON CALL FOR PAYMENT
Your administration introduced various competitive and merit
based schemes for the tertiary students in form of different kinds of scholarship programmes; the first class
students scholarship,scheme,the local post Graduate scholarship
scheme(PH.D),foreign scholarship scheme and the standardization of the under
graduate scheme to the various kinds of institution within and outside the
country.
This laudable initiative hinged on the three point agenda of
the your administration in no small way brought succor, open doors for the less
privilege, uplifted homes ,discovered exceptional talent, enhanced standard and
brought about human capital development across the state human resources.
However, it is sad to observe that instead of helping the
average Deltan, the scheme had brought about untold hardship in various ways. Some
students lost their lives in far away United kingdom due to lack of fees. Some had
to abandon their studies and went into other pursuit that could sustain them
while the programme lasted. The local post Graduate students whose release of
N300,000 per session for a period of three (3) years only got the first years’
in 2011 and up-till now no kobo had come in. A situation that have left some of
us out of the programme because no Nigerian University would allow a final
thesis for defense if no evidence of complete payment of school fees. Remember
that it keeps accumulating by the year for these students.
The Chairman of Delta State Scholarship Board, Monsignor
Buchi Aninye and his executives have made spirited effort but to no avail since
the past three years (2012-2014).
Your Excellency, we are using this medium to bring this
matter of urgent public attention to
your notice, appealing that you consider and direct the release of the grants
to keep the enviable image of your administration, policy position and end of
your tenure slogan ‘’To finish strong’
in the right perspective because the finger of God is working .
Thank you in anticipation.
Signed:
Concerned Delta State Postgraduate Students
Cc:
Commissioner for Higher Education,
Delta State
