The Gambia: Fleeing Students Abroad Urged to be Good Ambassadors of Country |
Yesterday, President Yahya Jammeh ordered The Gambia
Government-sponsored students studying in India to come back home
immediately, following reported absconding.
The Office of the President understand some students at the Sharda University in Delhi have absconded, a statement relayed on State TV, GRTS said.
"It
has come to the notice of the Office of the President that some
Gambian students under the sponsorship of President Jammeh at the Sharda University have absconded," the national broadcaster reports.
The
statement described the act of absconding as "unacceptable" and urge
Government-funded students abroad to refrain such acts.
"... be
good and noble ambassadors of The Gambia," the statement advices, before
stating that the cost of the return of the students from Delhi will be
fully taken care-of by President Jammeh's office.
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Written by Modou S. Joof
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