Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said, government is ready to open the country’s borders for final year foreign students to allow them to return home, following the partial reopening of schools.
“Final year students will be allowed in, arrangements are being done with the Ministry of Education. You know schools are closed except for final year students. So for final year foreign or international students, my understanding is that the Education Ministry has said that they can engage with the various school authorities and some arrangements can be made for them.”
“So for final year international students, that arrangement can be made through the specific institutions in collaboration with the ministry in charge of education,” Oppong Nkrumah said on GTV’s #AskTheInfoMinistry on Tuesday.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on the 31st of May, announced the easing of some of the restrictions in the country, to allow Ghanaians slowly ease into life as they knew.
Key of these easing was the easing of restrictions imposed on the reopening of schools solely for final year students.
Many people have, however, expressed concerns about the fate of final year foreign students who left the country before the closure of the borders in Mach 2020.
The country’s borders were shut as part of measures put in place to check the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in Ghana.
President Akufo-Addo said the country’s borders were to remain shut even though measures have been put in place to bring Ghanaians stranded abroad back into the country.
