Embassy Corruption
Embassy employee steals students stipends:
Kuala Lumpur, NewsYemen
Some 300 Yemeni students at the Malaysian Multimedia University have decided to make a sit-in next week outside the Yemeni Embassy in Malaysia protesting to the cultural attaché’s delay to pay the tuition fees since years.
According to its internal system, the university has barred Yemeni students and prevented them to check their results until they pay charges. They said the decision of the university came suddenly while they were doing the exam of the first semester of 2007.
The university’s procedure made students embarrassed and put their future at risk, said head of the Foreign Students Union at the university, Fuad al-Mawlid. They do not know charges are not paid for so long, he added.
Al-Mawlid held Yemen’s embassy and the culture attaché in particular responsible for this problem, urging them to immediately solve it.
Yemen’s Embassy has shown an intention to withdraw students from the university and enroll them in another one. But it did not offer details.
While Yemeni concerned officials have refused to comment on this issue, the presidency of the Malaysian Multimedia University has sent a letter to Yemen’s Embassy and students denouncing the delay of payments.
The university asks students to pay one million renget (equal to 100 million Yemeni rials).
Students expressed fears of more harassment by the university warning to make sit-ins outside the embassy until they get their trouble settled.Yemeni students study in different colleges of the Multimedia University which is Malaysia’s first private university. It has two campuses with one in Cyberjaya and another in Melaka.
Those who play with students’ future are a band used to create chaos, said student Mohammad al-Junaid, computer engineering.
