Kogi Speaker Empowers 350 Students with N4.5m Support

The Speaker Kogi State House of Assembly, Prince Matthew Kolawole has given out a sum of N4.5 million to about 350 students as their education support. The member representing Kabba/Bunu State Constituency has also been endorsed by his constituents to contest for another term come 2019 political dispensation.

This was disclosed in a recent programme held at the St. Augustine College, Kabba, where over 350 students across the constituency including nonindigenes benefited from his N4.5million Education Support Scheme.

According to him, “it was a vow between himself and

God to consistently support the people especially in the area of education considering his love for education and the challenges he went through before he could get education.

He said he was not that lucky to be born with silver spoon; hence he resorted to menial jobs to raise money for his education while growing up, noting that his parents were not privileged to be rich but he was determined to make it in life. The Speaker enjoined the youths to take their education serious as leaders of today and no longer of tomorrow, stressing that he did not allow the challenges of growing up to weigh him down in pursuing his education.

He stressed that he graduated

from Primary School in 1978 but could not continue to secondary level due to lack of resources, noting that when his classmates in Primary School left the secondary in 1983, he was only able to complete his own in 1987. According to him, he loved education even when the means was not available, pointing out that despite his predicaments then, he emerged the overall best student in Oyi Local Government Area in 1978 session.

Kolawole said going through his résumé shows that it took him 20 solid years before he could complete his secondary education, pointing out that he gave this background for people to know why he loves education.