Ogun State Authorities on Wednesday flagged off the fee of N10,000 money award to 100,000 major and secondary college learners within the over 2, 000 public colleges throughout the 4 divisions of the state.
The fee is in success of the promise made by Governor Dapo Abiodun, to pay N10,000 to indigent pupils and college students within the state’s major and secondary colleges as a part of the federal government’s effort to mitigate the financial hardship within the nation.
Talking whereas monitoring the disbursement of the cash in some colleges in Abeokuta, the Commissioner for Training, Science and Expertise, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, famous that the fee was one of many methods utilized by the governor to supply succour to oldsters on account of the current financial scenario within the nation.
Arigbabu famous that the gesture was meant to supply succour to pupils and their mother and father.
He stated: “In view of the financial realities within the nation, the governor determined to supply succour to the folks of the state utilizing multiplicity approaches to attain this.
“He believes that one other technique that could possibly be used which has by no means been utilized by any authorities earlier than is the well being and training sectors to succeed in the populace. By way of the training sector, you’ll be able to really attain out to those that want the palliative.
“We have now over 2,000 major and secondary colleges in all of the 4 divisions of the state, and 100,000 learners in these colleges would obtain N10,00 every.”
He emphasised that the federal government determined to pay via mother and father whose kids are in public major and secondary colleges as the kids don’t have financial institution accounts resulting from their age.
“As we meet and provides the mother and father the governor’s message, they’re receiving the alert for fee. The governor’s gesture is to help the mother and father in assembly their kids’s wants,” he added.
On how the kids have been chosen, the commissioner maintained that the method was goal, including that it was simple to provide you with the record of indigent college students as academics who’re a part of the varsity system got the burden of discovering the indigent college students as they’re the closest to them.
