Sen Orji awards scholarship to 100 undergraduates
* Says education, key to industrial revolution
By Steve Oko
No fewer than 100 undergraduates in Abia Central senatorial zone have benefitted from this year’s edition of Senator Theodore Orji’s annual scholarship scheme.
Each of the benefiting 100 undergraduates from different tertiary institutions in the country went home with N100, 000 cash.
Handing over the cash to the beneficiaries selected from all six council areas in the district, Senator Orji urged them to reciprocate the gesture through academic excellence so they could also be a source of help to others.
The former Governor who explained that the scheme was not part of his constituency projects but personal efforts borne out of his passion foryouths in the area.
He noted that his desire was to help make education affordable for youths in his constituency hence his decision to float the scheme a year after his ascension to the senate.
Orji who said that education remained the engine of industrial revolution, charged the beneficiaries not to misuse the fund but use it to pay their school fees as lecturers had ended their 9-month strike.
Responding on behalf of the beneficiaries, a virtually impaired student of the University of Nigeria Nsuka, UNN, Precious Ekoro, thanked Orji for the gesture which she said was a huge financial relief to them.
She therefore, prayed God to bless the senator for empathising with the indigent, adding that they would justify the gesture by doubling efforts in their academic performance.
In his remarks, the Abia State Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers,
NUT, Comrade Kizito Kalu, applauded Orji for his benevolence, saying the gesture is a way of promoting education in the zone.
He however solicited the extension of the gesture to accommodate primary and secondary school students.
In his remarks, Deputy Governor, Sir Ude Oko Chukwu, also commended Orji for the scheme which he noted had been of tremendous benefits to youths in the constituency.
Speaking earlier, Chairman of the occasion, Chief Frank Ibe thanked the Senator for increasing the number of this year’s beneficiaries from 60 in the previous years to 100.
Beneficiaries were drawn from all six LGAs in the zone with slots for the indigent and the intelligent one’s
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