Akufo-Addo Government Has Neglected Us –Returned Ukraine students Cry Out
Some Ghanaian students in Ukraine who were evacuated by the government due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have blamed the New Patriotic government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for neglecting their education infrastructural opportunities after evacuated them from Ukraine.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
Some Ghanaian students in Ukraine who were evacuated by the government due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have blamed the New Patriotic government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for neglecting their education infrastructural opportunities after evacuated them from Ukraine.
According to some of the students out of 283 students evacuated from Ukraine, the central government is not taken steps to get the educational opportunities
They asserted that their colleagues who remained in Europe are getting numerous opportunities than some of them who were - returned from Ukraine.
They pointed out that they are beginning to regret accepting the government’s offer to return home.
According to the students, since they were brought back to Ghana, the government has not taken considerable steps to attain the promises it made them.
Speaking in an interview with Neat FM, the president of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) Ukraine chapter, Philip Bobbie Ansah, said that they had an agreement for 140 of the students to be absorbed in Ghanaian universities and the remaining 143 sent to universities abroad but that has not happened.
“…we want to be in Ghana. Ghana seems to be the safest place to be for everyone which we all advocated for it. Luckily, the government intervened and brought all of us back to Ghana, those of us who wanted to come back, and the next step was to secure education, social support, and all of that… processes started, we had meetings with the government but we have not seen anything materialize. But, our colleagues in Europe, they are getting opportunities over there, that is the issue we have.
“Our colleagues in Europe are getting support with education, accommodation, some are even given money every month and all of that and some are here and they are struggling, they don’t know the next steps for their education and all of that is why they are now saying that (government should have left them in Europe),” he said.
Mr. Ansah further stated that the executives of NUGS Ukraine have been to some of the universities in the country and they informed that they will be adsorbed only if the government gives that direction.
He added that they have informed the government about this but the government keeps saying they are working on it which is frustrating most of the students.
The Government on March 4, 2022, began the evacuation of Ghanaian students in Ukraine who accepted its offer to be evacuated.
The students were evacuated from neighboring countries of Ukraine including Poland and Romania and all 283 of them were evacuated.
However, some of the students reject the government’s offer to be evacuated to Ghana, saying that they will be better off in Europe.
