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Uzodimma approves ‘re- integration’ fund for Imo returnees from South Africa
… law students to benefit too
The Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, has approved N500 million for Imo returnees from South Africa and law students.
While the returnees numbering 250 will receive ₦1 million each to enhance their rehabilitation and integration, 500 Imo students in Nigeria Law School will receive N500,000 each to help them cope with the rising cost of living.
This was disclosed to the newsmen in a statement by the Imo State Commissioner for Information, Public Orientation and Strategy, Hon Declan Emelumba.
According to the commissioner, the governor was moved to embark upon the humanitarian gestures because of the extenuating 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 said.
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 to enable them to settle down and re- integrate into the society with minimum discomfort.
The Commissioner noted that under the shared prosperity agenda of the Uzodimma’s administration, every citizen is taken care of outside the infrastructural revolution in the state.
On the law students, Emelumba recalled that this is not the first time that the governor had gone to their aid.
He said: “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.