Ideato Students Receive Scholarship

 As Rep. Member, Ugochinyere Holds Annual Scholarship Award

By Dorcas Samson Achi

One hundred and thirty Ideato students on Saturday October 26, 2024 benefited from the Annual Scholarship Awards sponsored and initiated by the House of Rep. Member for Ideato North and South Federal Constituency, Barr. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere. 

The event which held at the Constituency Office, Osina, witnessed a massive turnout of all the 130 lucky awardees, their family members and leaders from the 27 wards of Ideato North and South LGAs.

Speaking at the occasion, the Member representing Ideato Nation, at the Federal House of Representatives, Barr.  Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, who was represented by the DG, Hon. Ernest Njesi, congratulated the beneficiaries of the scholarship grant who participated in the scholarship examinations and qualified for the awards. 

Hon. Njesi stated that Hon. Ugochinyere is committed to the academic success of every Ideato child, hence has resolved to support the educational programs of Ideato children through his Entrance Scholarship Initiative. 

According to him, every year Hon. Ugochinyere will be giving entrance scholarship grants to sons and daughters of Ideato Constituency who are entering into a new academic level to assist their parents/guardians in their educational pursuits. 

The Chairman of Ikenga Imo Educational Services Committee, Sir Sylvester Durukwuaku applauded the beneficiaries for their excellent performances at the scholarship examinations which he said qualified them for the grants and encouraged those who could not pass the exams to study hard and cease another opportunity. 

He commended the Rep. Member for the scholarship initiative he has embarked on with his personal resources amid other manpower and human capital development initiatives, stressing that Ideato people have not had it this way from any federal lawmaker since the inception of the constituency. 

Parents of the beneficiaries took turns to appreciate Hon. Ugochinyere for the scholarship grants given to their children. A single mother, Miss Brilliant Igwe expressed her utmost joy that her daughter was one of the beneficiaries of the 2024 Ikenga Entrance Annual Scholarship award and thanked Hon. Ugochinyere for providing financial support to families in assisting their children's education. 

Another woman from Ideato North, who pleaded anonymity for fear of the husband, who is a prominent APC leader, but whose two children benefitted from the award, invoked God's blessings on Ikenga, adding that although her family, through the instrumentality of the husband, didn't vote for Hon. Ugochinyere at the last election, she would henceforth woe all of them to support the Rep. Member, going forward.

Mrs. Ogbuka Onyekachi from Dimagu Autonomous Community in Isiekenesi, Ideato South whose two children, Ogbuka Chidimma and Ogbuka Ositadimma were among the beneficiaries of the grant, extolled Ugochinyere for his kind gesture, stressing that the grant has alleviated her financial burdens, adding that she is a prove of Ikenga's support for education in Ideato Nation.

Mrs. Precious Okeke from Arondizogu whose children were also among the beneficiaries of the scholarship grant expressed profound gratitude to Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere for his magnimity and for investing in the future of the Ideato children. 

Her words "I am grateful to Ikenga for this scholarship program which has today benefitted my children who participated and succeeded in the scholarship examinations.

"I also wish to thank the Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere Educational Services Committee for ensuring a transparent, impartial and accountable process where every student who participated, passed and qualified for the grant was given the grant. 

"I pray for God's blessings upon our honourable Representative for assisting parents to pay school fees and other things for our children in this very difficult times. We are happy for this financial support in this biting economy".