The beneficiaries of the Nigerians Bilateral Educational Agreement (BEA) scholarship in Morocco under the Federal Scholarship Board (FSB) have called on the Federal Government and other well-meaning Nigerians to come to their aid.
Their Save-our-Soul cry was contained in a tweet by the Nigerian Students Association in Morocco, wherein they expressed their pain, agony, torture and disappointment as a lot of their members have been rendered homeless and can no longer afford basic needs; a situation they referred to as “unimaginable and calamitous,” and such that they “haven’t even experienced at home.”
The tweet reads: “The beneficiaries of the Nigerians Bilateral Educational Agreement (BEA) scholarship in Morocco under the Federal Scholarship Board (FSB), would like to, on behalf of all other BEA scholars in other countries, call on the Nigerian federal government to release our outstanding payments for six month now and counting.
“This unfortunate act of untimely payment is no new thing and has been a frequent practice over the years. The last time we had to call them upon was in a calamitous situation when we had to go over a year without payment and had to use this platform through distinguished and noble individuals, especially Mr Segun Awosanya (@segalink), who helped make our sad voices louder.
“We frankly do not understand why most of us who are less privileged were offered these scholarships in hopes for us to lift burdens of our parents, only to land us into this unimaginable and calamitous situation we haven’t even experienced while at home.
