About a 100 Rivers State sponsored students studying in the United Kingdom may be deported back to Nigeria after they lost their student visas.
Student Pulse gathered from a The Guardian report that the students have had their visas revoked because they owe two years tuition at their various universities.
Six of the students have been camping outside the Nigerian High Commission since Wednesday, having been kicked out of their apartments by their landlords.
“We slept outside,” one of the students said.
According to the spokesman of the protesting students, Kevin Nwoke, their imminent deportation did not come without warning.
“The university initially gave us 60 days deadline, before revoking our student visas and kicking us out,” he said.
Nwoke, who studies at engineering undergraduate of the University of Huddersfield, also said efforts to reach the state governor, Nyesom Wike, had proved abortive.
One of the affected students, Darrick George, said time is running out on them.
“The deadline to remain in this country will expire in five days,”he said.
The question that should be asked is why the immediate past governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi, allowed two-year tuition to remain unpaid and why Wike failed to offset the debt on assuming power.
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