Governor Of Zamfara Under Fire From Students For Failing To Keep Campaign Promise To Give Scholarships
In a comment on this development, a final year student of engineering in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, who is from Zamfara State, said he deferred an academic session owing to Matawalle's negligence to fund the scholarship board.
He said that he had to set up a small business to support himself but the business was not thriving, and that he had already paid N15, 000 as a deferment fee.
Matawalle, during his campaign promised students scholarships before his 100 days in office. But according to the students, the promise have not been kept. The leadership of the National Union of Zamfara State Students, NUZAMSS, has criticised the state Governor, Bello Matawalle, over his failure to provide scholarship funds for indigent students.
The students stormed the state government house on Wednesday to show their dissatisfaction with various placards while calling on the Governor to implement the promises he made to students regarding scholarship funds.
The students also said they had been making to meet with the governor but all their efforts were abortive.
It was however recently reported how Zamfara State government gave 15 brand new Hilux vehicles to leaders of different repentant bandits in the state and the governor approved millions of naira to be given to the 'repentant' bandits as compensation.
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January 28, 2021
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