The South Sudanese students' union president in Kampala says he has received assurances from officials in South Sudan that they will instruct commercial banks to help students out to secure hard currencies.

Makuei Aguer Adel is the new South Sudanese students' leader in Uganda, replacing Nin Tut since a vote last December. He says that he has recently discussed with South Sudan's Minister of Education how the students can access dollars.

"What we discussed with the minister is to create ways on how we can access the dollars we as the students because we have our parents are struggling hard to pay our tuitions but the challenge is that it is hard for us to get dollars," said Makuei.

He said the minister has assured him that he will work to discuss the issue with other officials in the council of ministers meeting.

Makuei told Radio Tamazuj the government had tried several times to facilitate access to hard currency for students who are studying in various East Africa countries and abroad. He accused some individual officials within the government system of working to block students.

"We know that the government is really facing some challenges, there are some dishonest there that are manipulating the system – they pretend to be the students, because with IT coverage everyone can produced an ID, admission forms and so forth. Therefore can present and get the money as they pretend to be the students," he added.

The student leader added that the government has a role to play in order to facilitate for the students access to dollars from the central bank and other commercial banks in the country.

"We found it is a task and obligation of the government to provide us with hard currencies because if one may afford to get and then there is no need to deter such a person from accessing the money," added the union president.

He says most students have suffered due to lack of getting hard currency in the country. Recently the price of one dollar is about seven South Sudanese pound in the local market forcing some students to discontinue their studies.

South Sudan's economy has been hit hard by the crisis since mid December 2013.