Olu Samuel, Lokoja

The Senator representing Kogi West Sunday Steve Karimi has set up a Committee for the implementation of yearly N100 million 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 public tertiary institutions anywhere in the country who are from the Kogi West will receive One Hundred Thousand Naira (#100,000) as bursary awards.

The Senator who disclosed this to our Correspondent on Friday in Lokoja said that the project would last throughout his four year term as a Senator

“Not less than one thousand Kogi West Students in public tertiary institutions are expected to benefit in this yearly initiative that is solely financed by me for the benefit of my constituents”.

“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 said that the students loan being proposed by the Federal government would not affect the busary awards as beneficiaries are not going to pay back while the students loans would be paid back.

He said that the committee for the bursary are people with proven integrity, very accountable, seasoned administrators, educationists and technocrats that were deliberately chosen to serve due to their tract 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 in time for the commencement of next academic session.” He said.