Fourteen students sponsored by the Kano state government to study MBBS at the SS Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Davanagere – India, face rustication two years after Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has refused to settle the N22million outstanding fees.

DAILY NIGERIAN gathered that with weeks to their graduation, the 14 students’ names have already been removed from the graduation list.

Speaking with our correspondent via an email, one of the students who pleaded anonymity disclosed that failure of the state government to settle the outstanding fees would translate to having wasted their time studying in vain.

“It is few weeks to our graduation but the college has excluded our names from the list of graduating students, due to non-payment of some outstanding debts.

“It is almost getting to two years now without receiving any penny from the government that ought to shoulder 100% of our responsibilities while staying in India,” he lamented.

According to the students, their ordeal began in late 2016 when their allowances and tuition fees were stopped abruptly without any explanation.

They said after been pressurised by the school authority, they sent a series of reminders to notify the relevant authorities from the state scholarship board to the education commissioner, but the issue was swept under the carpet.

“We are stranded as the State Government hasn’t paid us our allowances for 2 years now.

“We tried to complete our studies in such a miserable situation they put us into, yet the school authority vows to not issue us certificates due to some 22 million Naira outstanding debt ( for all the 14 Medical students) which the government owes the school authority.

“Our parents are weak they can’t afford such amount of money,” the students cried out.

“If they don’t want us to be productive, is the Kano government forcing us to become terrorists holding guns and be killing people?

“Our parents are sad about the state government negligence on the situation.

“We are all medical doctors with no certificates, we are sons and daughters of no one,” one of the students lamented.

However, a letter dated June 29, 2018, signed by the Executive Secretary, Kano State Scholarship Board, Prof. Fatima Muhammad, and obtained by DAILY NIGERIAN, suggested that the office could not address the issue, pointing out that they had channelled their complaint to the office of the governor.

However, up to the time of filing this report, no possible measure had taken place from the state government.