International Evangelist and Founding President of the Worldwide Miracle Outreach, Dr Lawrence Tetteh has described some Ghanaian students on scholarship in Hungary as ungrateful over claims that they were starving in the European country.
His comments come after Ms Nike Szkarosi, the Chargé d’ Affaires of the Hungary Embassy bemoaned such calims and reportage could undermine bilateral relations between the two countries and affect future scholarship packages.
Ghanaian students numbering over 40, who benefited from the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship for 2016/2017 called on the government for support to cater for their basic needs because their stipends are inadequate.
As it stands now, the students also fear they will not be able to afford return tickets back home to Ghana.
“Some of these kids have all of a sudden forgotten how they cried to be given this opportunity to study in Hungary. This is ingratitude”, Dr. Tetteh fumed.
He said during his time of studies in Hungary the country was offering only four scholarships to Ghanaian students “and so I feel very disappointed with the turn of events”.
Dr Tetteh appealed to the students to channel their grievances to the government and not Hungary.
Hungarian Minister of Human Capacities, led a government delegation to Ghana, last April and announced a scholarship agreement that would enable 50 Ghanaian students to study in various disciplines in his country including slots in agriculture, the oil industry, IT, arts and music.
The Chargé d’ Affaires of the Hungary Embassy said the monthly stipends of 40,460 HUF (Hungarian Forint) for undergraduate and Masters Students and 140,000 HUF for PHD students were meant for basic living cost being offered by the Hungarian tax payer.
This according to her, ”is a lot of money and Hungarian parents give less to their children in school,”
She said the scholarship made it possible for the students to work and so from June – August the students were at liberty to earn a living.
Source: otecfmghana.com
