Kebbi govt offers scholarship to kidnapped college students

The Kebbi State Government has promised to offer scholarship to rescued girls of Federal Government College (FGC), Birnin Yauri.

Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, made this known while receiving a Turkish organisation, Nigeria/TUILP International College, who paid him a courtesy visit in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital, on Friday.

It would be recalled that bandits, on June 17, 2021, stormed FGC Birnin Yauri and abducted both male and female students of the college alongside two of their teachers.

The female students spent more than a year in captivity before they finally gained their freedom after concerted efforts by government and their parents.

The governor said the girls would be offered scholarship to enable them continue with their studies and actualise their dreams in various fields of endeavours.

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He pledged to partner with the Turkish organisation to develop education, health and youth empowerment, adding that he had been monitoring the activities of the organisation for a long period of time and found them to be sincere and upright.

Idris said: “I noticed their contribution in promoting health activities, hence, the decision of this administration to engage them in cataract surgery. My administration is ready to partner with any donor agency that will bring development to Kebbi State.”

He noted that his administration had embarked on construction and rehabilitation of roads to give the state capital a facelift, adding that similar projects would be extended to other Senatorial Districts.

Governor Idris assured that by next week, he would sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on completion of the state secretariat to provide office accommodation to the entire civil servants in the state.

Idris appealed to the people of the state to give the Turkish organisation maximum support and cooperation towards moving the state forward.

On his part, the leader of group, who is also the Group Managing Director, Surat Group of Companies, Yasar Ovenc, assured the governor of their readiness to collaborate with the state government in promoting education, health and youth empowerment.

He requested for the names of the kidnapped Yauri girl students and promised to offer them scholarship, while emphasising that their priority area would be on education, particularly girl-child education.

The Star