Sokoto govt set to pay tuition of student facing deportation from Russia

The Sokoto State Government says it will pay the tuition of one its indigeneS, Yahya Usman Gada, a medical student facing deportation in Russia.

Daily Trust reports that Gada, a final year student of Irkustk State Medical University, Russia, was among the best African students in the university with a 5.2 GP before his suspension over unpaid tuition.

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Gada is currently at the immigration camp after he was ejected out of his residence for not paying his annual rent.

He is said to have made two appearance in court over visa and study residency violation. If found guilty, he risks a two-year jail term and deportation.

A former Chairman of the state’s scholarship board, Hassan Muhammad Rabah, at a joint press briefing, said the state government was in touch with the school authorities and assured that the tuition would be settled.

Rabah, who addressed newsmen with the Permanent Secretary in the state’s Ministry of Finance, Dahiru Abbas, said findings showed that the embattled student had no immigration issue contrary to his claim.

He added that the tuition was $4,000 and not $12,000 as claimed by the student.

He further said, “We learnt that he married a Russian woman and they have an issue which he needs money to settle. Therefore he is using all avenues to blackmail us into sending money at all cost.”