joshuaSenator Karimi Kick Starts Process to Disburse N100m scholarships to constituents
…. as students pass vote of confidence on him in Kogi.
The Senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly Honourable Sunday Steve Karimi has kick-started the process of distributing#100,000 naira each to 1000 deserving students of kogi west in Tertiary institutions across the country.
This is as the students bodies have passed votes of confidence on his ability and capabilities to lead the zone to path of growth and development.
This was disclosed in a press conference, organised by the project Manager, Distinguish Senator Sunday Steve Karimi Students Bursary Award Scheme , Dr. Bawa Dangana held on Thursday in Lokoja to intimate the beneficiaries with the process of disbursement of the funds.
Dr Bawa noted that the Distinguish Senator Karimi knows how important is education to his constituency, had decided to institute annual scholarship scheme to take care of the financial challenges facing students of his constituency.
He added that the 2023/2024 academic session , a whooping #100m has been earmarked to be disbursed at #100,000 to each of the qualified 1,000 students spread across the 7 Local Government Areas of the senatorial District.
He disclosed that aside the Bursary Award to deserving students, #100m has equally been allocated to 50 women cooperative societies within the district, adding that the Honourable Senator had attracted #1,200,000,000 from the Federal Government for the construction of an educational facility in Kogi LGA, influenced the rehabilitation of Iluhagba-Egbe expressway, supported the construction of security base at Kogi State University Kabba, with #5m, the supply of rice and semivita palliative at different times to the people of the zone among numerous of his populist Programmes.
He said in the light of his gesture for the upliftment of the educational needs of the youth and women empowerment, the students bodies from across the 7 LGAs have passed a voted of confidence in his meritorious service to the constituency.
He counselled the detractors to sheath their sword and to join hands with senator Sunday Karimi in his determination and commitment to the overall well-being and development of the zone.
He added that Honourable Karimi is so busy and commited to his legislative business of ensuring good laws that will impact positively on the people of his district and Nigeria that he will not occupy his minds with frivolous and prettiness that does no good to the people he has sworn to defend at all times.
The project Manager, maintained that senator Karimi does not limit his benevolence to only his constituency as he was consistently engaging the youths across the 21LGAs of state the need to shun the hunger strike which yielded peace and tranquility in the state throughput the protest.
He Commended Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo for the exhibition of pragmatic leadership which has made the state the ambassador of the renewed Hope mantra of the president Tinubu Administration and urged the youth to always toe the path of hard works and to shun every form of antisocial behaviours
He appealed to Federal Government to maximize the gains derived from the hunger strike and show more commitment to the immediate, medium and longtime solutions to the problems facing the country.
In a remark , on behalf of students of the district, Comrade Omoniyi Emmanuel Omodara, Okun Students National President thanked the Distinguish Senator Karimi for his labour of love for the gift of a whooping#100,,000 each to the beneficiaries and promised that the students would make productive use of the grant .
The president noted that the prospective beneficiaries and all the students have pledged their loyalty and support for his programmes and plans in the National Assembly and assure him of the massive support of the people.
