Legislator Grants Scholarship To 400 Students

Over 400 students in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State this year benefitted from the free education scholarship scheme embarked upon by the lawmaker representing Bonny Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly (RVHA), Hon Abinye Pepple.
Pepple disclosed this last Friday in a chat with newsmen in Port Harcourt.
He said  over 270 students were selected from all the Wards in Bonny Constituency to write the just concluded Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) this year, while 172 were registered to write the General Certificate of Education Examination ( GCE).
The lawmaker also disclosed that he also engaged over 20 teachers that engaged the students in preparatory and extra moral classes for the examinations.
He disclosed that he has set up a skills acquisition programme which he promised during his electioneering campaign to tackle youth unemployment in the area.
Pepple said no fewer than 200 persons have graduated in various skills with some of them already employed.
He advised beneficiaries to make good use of the opportunity, maintaining that the gesture was aimed at checking unemployment and youth restiveness in the area.
Assuring that the exercise would be yearly throughout his tenure, Pepple called on those who are yet to benefit to be patient, saying that the committee in charge would soon commence the selection for 2018  examinations and skills acquisition in the area.
The lawmaker called on the people of Bonny to support the Governor Nyesom Wike administration to enable him deliver dividends of democracy in the area.