The Senator representing Kogi West, Sunday Steve Karimi has set up a committee to implement a yearly N100m bursary award for 1000 Kogi West students in Public Tertiary Institutions across the country.
Under the scholarship scheme, each of the 1000 selected students of the public tertiary institutions anywhere across the country who are from the Kogi West will receive N100,000 as bursary awards.
The Chairman of the committee, Dr Bawa Dangana who spoke with Arewa PUNCH on the scholarship scheme said that the project would last throughout Karimi’s four-year term of office.
His words, “Not less than 1000 Kogi West students in public tertiary institutions are expected to benefit yearly for the next four years.
“In all, 4000 students of various tertiary institutions anywhere in the country would benefit from this initiative that is solely financed by the senator for the benefit of his constituency,” he said.
Karimi, who also disclosed this to Arewa PUNCH on Friday in Lokoja, also affirmed that the project would last throughout his first-term tenure as a Senator.
In the words of Karimi, “Although, the amount is not much, I believe it will go a long way to cushion the effects of the current hardship and lighten the burden on the shoulders of parents.”
He stressed that the student loan being proposed by the Federal Government would not affect the bursary awards as beneficiaries are not going to pay back while the student loan would be paid back.
Karimi maintained that the committee for the bursary is composed of people with proven integrity, and who are also very accountable, seasoned administrators, educationists and technocrats who were deliberately chosen to serve due to their track record.
“The committee will come up with fair and transparent modalities through which prospective beneficiaries would emerge without bias and any sentiment whatsoever.
“Beneficiaries would start to enjoy their payments as from August so that time it can meet up with their financial educational obligations for the commencement of the next academic session,” he assured Arewa PUNCH.
