Some Ghanaian students sponsored by the government to study in Morocco have protested to demand their unpaid stipends, which have been in arrears for many months.
In a video sighted by UTV, the student stated that they have become stranded, struggling to survive in Morocco due to the unpaid stipends they are required to receive every month.
The stranded students said they had not been paid their stipends for close to 11 months, an unfortunate situation that has placed them in financial difficulties. They said they struggle to meet basic needs such as food and accommodation.
One of the students, a female, broke down in tears while narrating the difficulties the unreleased stipend had brought to her in Morocco.
"As ladies here, we are not even able to afford the basic needs like sanitary pads, and the worst of it all is, like, your parent would send you money and it gets here and is nothing," she said with tears rolling down from her eyes.
Their demands A male student also demanded the immediate release of more than 10 months of unpaid stipends from the government. "We live in a country where rent is $120 per month, that is the cheapest you can get at a place without security, but we have managed to live there because even the stipends we have are not enough," he said.
"It has been almost 11 months without this stipend. The question is how do we survive? Our landlords are chasing us from our apartment. Some of us are sleeping with our friends, some of us are sleeping outside. The students knelt and begged President Akufo-Addo to come to their aid because they were suffering far away in Morocco.
