Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, has approved the release of ₦300 million to Imo State students at the Nigerian Law School and Nigerian returnees from South Africa who are indigenes of the state.

While the returnees numbering 250 will receive ₦1 million each to enhance their rehabilitation and integration, 100 Imo students at the Law school will receive ₦500,000 each to help them cope with the rising cost of living.

Imo State Commissioner for Information, Public Orientation and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, disclosed this in a statement in Owerri.

He said the governor was moved to embark upon the humanitarian gestures because of the difficult circumstances the beneficiaries found themselves.

“The law students made a passionate appeal to His Excellency to support them to cushion the global inflation as regards the cost of living. As a caring father, he responded promptly,” he explained.

The commissioner, however, noted that the assistance to the South African returnees was borne out of empathy by the governor who felt that the traumatised indigenes needed help, hence he approved what he described as ” re- integration fund” for them.

Emelumba said the governor was convinced that the indigenes who were forced to leave South Africa needed a helping hand from the government to enable them to settle down and re-integrate into the society with minimum discomfort.

He further noted that under the shared prosperity agenda of Uzodimma’s administration, every citizen is taken care of outside the infrastructural revolution in the state.

On the law students, Emelumba recalled that this was not the first time that the governor had gone to their aid.

“Most of them are on the scholarship list of the state government, and from time to time, the governor extends a helping hand to them,” he added. (Channels TV)

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