The Ghana National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), has called on the government to evacuate Ghanaian students from the disputed region between Ukraine and Russia, following ongoing conflicts there.
According to the Union, Government must accelerate its efforts to ensure the safeguard of all the Ghanaian students studying within the region.
NUGS in a statement appeals to Government follows the declaration of a state of emergency by the Ukrainian Parliament and Russia’s “annexation” of Eastern Provinces of Ukraine.
The Union is further asking the government to prioritize evacuating its citizens from the shores of the country, as other countries are doing to get their nationals away from the region.
“Some of those students including Chapter Executives of NUGS in Ukraine have touched down and made contact with the National Secretariat of NUGS, advising that urgent steps be taken to ensure the safety of their colleagues still in the region,” it added.
NUGS, proposing the way forward suggested that, the Government uses same approach it used to evacuate Ghanaians abroad during the Covid-19 pandemic peak, to move out the students from the conflict zone until calm is restored in the region.
“We are thus asking for the evacuation of students from the Eastern Provinces of Ukraine which is the present nucleus of the conflict, and out of Russia as the country may pose an overall hostile environment to our students.
“Students may be temporarily resettled in the Western provinces of Ukraine which remain calm at present, or most preferably, out of the country altogether and back home till a resolution is reached on this crisis,” the statement said.
