Coming to Ghana seems like a mistake – Evacuated Ukraine students

• Coming to Ghana seems like a mistake, evacuated Ukraine students laments. 
• Ghanaians students who find themselves back in the country due to the Russo-Ukraine standoff are unhappy and frustrated. 
• The students have expressed their disappointment as government has not been able to enroll them in new schools. 
• They described the whole process as slow and beckoned on the government to expedite actions to secure schools for them.

Following tensions in war-torn Ukraine, Ghanaian students who were successfully evacuated have expressed remorse for returning to the nation.

The dissatisfied students claimed that the Ghanaian government had failed to keep commitments made to them, despite giving them hope and assurances that they would be able to attend school.

“We had a few of meetings initially, and they [the Ghana government] let us aware that they are very well positioned to support us and secure schools for us,” Philip Bobbie Ansah, President of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) Ukraine Chapter, stated.

“They wanted information, which we provided. Everything seemed to be moving at a glacial pace. We have no idea what’s going on right now.”

“We don’t know what’s causing the delay,” he added, adding that the pupils are angry.

“Some of us refused to travel to Ghana, which appears to be the wisest decision because they have options. It now appears that some of us made a mistake by traveling to Ghana “On Citi FM in Accra, he stated.

Some people have refused to return home during the evacuation and have chosen to stay in Poland and other countries.

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Following the closing of Ukraine’s airspace, Ghanaians were left with Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic as alternatives.