AN APPEAL/CLARON CALL FOR PAYMENT

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