The Vice President of the National Union of Ghanaian Students (NUGS) in Ukraine, has admitted that some students refused to flee from Ukraine to safeguard their education.
According to Samuel Selorm Dzemakey, some of these students are final year students who have undergone six years of study in medicine and would complete in June.
“Some of the students are final year students who are due to complete in June and thus afraid their study and completion would be prolonged if they leave,” he disclosed on Angel FM’s Anopa Bofo Morning Show on Wednesday, March 2.
He added that aside from disrupting their studies, another challenge has to do with the payment of school fees, which he says “is not easy.”
He, however, declared that most schools are on break following the raging tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Lectures, he said, have been moved online while most of his lecturers, particularly, the females have travelled to other countries.
The NUGS Vice President also revealed that life in Ukraine is “sweet” and perhaps maybe a contributing factor to why some Ghanaians are not interested in returning home despite the Ukraine-Russia warfare.
This revelation follows a viral video on social media in which a Ghanaian student in Ukraine declared that he would rather be killed by a bomb in Ukraine than to come and ‘suffer’ in Ghana’s hard economy.
Per his estimations, one doesn’t need much money to eat in Ukraine and there is an abundance of chicken. In terms of transportation, he said “you don’t struggle for transportation and it is affordable.”
Mr. Dzemakey indicated that some students combine learning with work which earns them a substantive amount.
He listed online jobs, sales personnel and call centre jobs as the major work areas students target, which mostly do not require any qualification aside a two-week intensive training.
Despite his colleagues earning between 1000 to 1500 dollars for such jobs, he hasn’t ventured into any due to the stress of his medical course.
