A member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly representing Kirfi constituency, Alhaji Abdulkadir Umar Dewu, has offered scholarship to over 400 students pursuing various courses at different higher institutions across the country.
Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly Abubakar Y Sulaiman flagged up the distribution of scholarship scheme today at the conference hall of Mallam Ibrahim Na Hauwa at Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic Bauchi.
He thanked the lawmaker for his foresight and urged the beneficiaries to make the best use of the gesture.
Sulaiman stressed the importance of education which he said is a vital key to development of any society.
On his part, Umar Dewu said the scholarship was part of efforts to support the education of youths in his constituency.
The lawmaker said that N5m was earmarked for the first phase of the distribution to students from Kirfi constituency, after satisfying certain criteria.
“I have decided to offer them this scholarship as part of my own little way of boosting the level of education in my constituency.
“We all know that education is critical to the growth and development of any society, that is why I offered scholarship to all Kirfi indigenes in tertiary institutions that filled our forms and applied for scholarship.
“Under the first phase, over 400 students are to benefit and the beneficiaries include those studying doctorate degree, masters, first degree and other courses”.
He said “I will continue to support people who are willing to embrace education,” the lawmaker said, adding that over 1,000 people benefitted from the free surgery he initiated at the Kirfi General Hospital.
He pledged to continue with the scholarship and free surgery programmes up to the end of his life, noting his resolve to provide more dividends of democracy to his constituents before the expiration of the tenure of present administration in the state.
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Many speakers at the occasion commended the lawmaker for impacting positively on the lives of his constituents and urged him to sustain it.
Some of the beneficiaries who spoke to reporters after the occasion expressed their gratitude to the gesture and pledged to make the best use of the money received towards their academic activities.
