Mayor awards scholarships to 93 schools

Poor and needy pupils and students from 76 primary schools and 17 secondary schools in Fundong Subdivision, recently received scholarships from the Mayor of Fundong, Denis Awoh Ndang.

The scholarships, which were in the form of cash and textbooks, were doled out to the schools by the Mayor of the CPDM/SDF run Fundong Council in Boyo Division in the Northwest Region, during his tour to the public and private establishments.

The beneficiaries received the scholarships with a lot of excitement. Parents and teachers observed that, since independence, this was the first time an elected Mayor was visiting their villages, paying school fees and donating textbooks to facilitate the learning process.

In some of the enclave areas where only motor cycles could reach, primary school children and their parents could not hold back the tears of joy.

In many instances, like in GHS Akeh, an intelligent but disabled Form 2 student, Godsent Njuase, almost fainted when Ndang, declared: “I will pay all your school fees throughout your academic pursuits, whether I will still be in office as Mayor or not.”

At Akeh Baptist College, St Rita’s Catholic Primary school, GS Tinalah, GTC or GSS Ajeing among others, Mayor Ndang had one message: “I came to see the realities on the field so that I can appreciate the learning your conditions and seek solutions.

The Council has decided to pay two-thirds of your tuition fee because we have not come to replace or take over completely from your parents. What has pushed us out is the future leaders of this country, who are very, but very intelligent and many of you are at home because your parents cannot afford school fees.”

In addition to the cash and textbooks, the Mayor supplied benches and promised to construct pit toilets and provide computers in the schools he visited. Mayor Ndang dismissed the gesture as campaign ahead of 2018 Council elections.

He said it is the Council’s new policy to assist all schools within the municipality. He added that Godsent Njuase has added to a long list of students he is personally sponsoring.

“I began or got myself involved in philanthropic work some 10 years back when I realised I could put food on the table from what I earn and, looking around, I found children who are unable to go to school, but are intelligent. So, it is not beginning today that Ndang is a Mayor,” he asserted.

Various head teachers, principals of colleges where Ndang visited appreciated the gesture while appealing for more.