Following the release of N500.000/bursary award for 120 Oyo state Indgenes at the Nigeria Law School some set of indigenes of the state at the school said they were sidelined by the government
Just as the regular Class of 2018/2019 Oyo State Law Students have denied benefiting from the much publicized N500,000 bursary award by Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde.
It was gathered that just 120 out of 310 indigenes of the state at the law school benefitted from the largesse from Gov Seyi Makinde
A source who preffer anonymity told our reporter that the govt only made the N500,000 bursary available to just 120 Oyo Law School students, out of the total 310 of the same category, who are presently embittered. “The 120 hijacked the efforts others had been making with Ajimobi’s government in place.”
“The Director General of the Nigerian Law School sent the comprehensive list of all Oyo State indigenes to the govt, but because our gov wants that humongous amount for each person to go down the history as an unprecedented one in Oyo State, and because he could not increase ot beyond N60m, he decided not to accommodate others.
The truth is that only 1/3 of the Law students of Oyo origin benefit from the bursary. History cannot be erased sha.
The governor was told this during his 100 days media chat on BCOS but he said he was sorry, and that he heard that those agitating had graduated
‘yesterday’. Meanwhile, their results are not yet out till now, let alone being called to the Bar yet the governor described them as having graduated, despite that records are there in the Education Ministry that the process by the shortchanged students had commenced since the period of Ajimobi. Is government no longer a continuum? He querried.
In a report obtained from an online newsmedium, President of the indigenous student body at NLS, Kolapo Sodiq Abidemi, said his colleagues across the six campuses did not get a dime from the largesse as a result of misinformation given to the governor by the representative of the beneficiary set.
Abidemi alleged that the representative of the beneficiaries had misinformed the authorities that his set had already graduated from the law school.
Sodiq regarded the information as untrue stating that their results were yet to be released and that they were yet to be called to the Nigerian Bar.
He also stated that the official list containing the names of the Oyo students of both sets he and his team obtained from the Law School, was frustrated by officials of the state government.
“I am the president of the NLS Oyo state indigenes. We set out to collect bursary from the state.
“The state was ready to pay us. Then we had an issue. They requested we got names of those who chose Oyo as the State of origin from Law school.
“Law school was in the process of sending the names when we heard the Governor had approved 500k bursary to Oyo state indigenes in law school.
“Law school sent the names to us and we gave it to them but they requested Law School should send it directly to them.
“This came before the approval of the bursary
“Then we realized the Governor approved the bursary to backlog students, being misguided by a misrepresentation of the backlog’s chairman that our set had graduated.
“We informed the Governor that we have not graduated.
“We reached him through all the avenues we had.
“He reached out to us that he’s going to do something to it. Something like collation of names of both sets.
“To our utter dismay, the Governor refused to go on with the collation.
“We requested Law School to send a comprehensive list of both sets’ names and they did.
“He apologized subsequently on a radio programme.
“But we’re offended because, one, our right was infringed upon, paying backlog’s students at the expense of regular students
