Displaced Borno Students Beg Gov Zulum for Scholarship
Indigent students from Borno, sacked by insurgency, have called on the Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, for support with scholarship to continue their education.
The students, who were dislodged as a result of insurgency in North East, found succour at the Home of Needy Internally Displaced Person’s Camp, Uhogua, Edo State.
Speaking with PRNigeria on behalf of others, Nathan Ibrahim, a 500L student of Edo state University, Iyamho, said the support received from the camp coordinator has been overwhelming, having sponsored about 170 students in various tertiary institutions across the country.
Nathan, who his currently studying law, noted that without urgent support from the State government, their dream of acquiring tertiary education may be aborted.
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He said:
“I want to appeal to our Governor to extend help to us to continue our education. We’ve written several letters to government house to rescue us. It is not too late, we have several school bills to pay, not to talk of our younger ones that just got admitted to the state university recently.
“Assuming we don’t secure support from here, what will be our destination. As an indegine of the state, we are still going back to our state to contribute our intellectual academic qualifications to improve and develop the state.
“Till now, we still have some many bills to pay in school despite the help we get from here.”
The Camp Coordinator who is the lead Pastor of International Christian Center, Uhogua, Pastor Solomon Folorunsho, stated that:
“We are appealing to all well meaning individuals to give them scholarship. We have them in different classes
especially, Borno state Governor, Prof. Zulum to sponsor only the indigens of the state.
“They are still coming back to better the state as they are graduating soonest.
“We also appeal to other relevant agencies, who are responsible for distribution of items, education to come to our aid and take it up where we are now.”
By PRNigeria
