There was wild jubilation across social media platforms as beneficiaries of the bursary scheme initiated by the lawmaker representing Bonny Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Abinye Blessing Pepple celebrated their credit alerts.

Checks by Kristina Reports revealed that the lawmaker has doled out bursary payments worth over N4 million to about 400 tertiary institution students of his constituency, leaving them in utter joy and palpable jubilation.

The students, who, as at Friday, February 5, 2021, have already taken to various social media platforms expressing gratitude to their benefactor for the financial rescue, comprise of both indigenes and non-indigenes of Bonny Local Government Area, ranging from diverse tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

According to the document of enlistment sighted by Kristina Reports, at least, a minimum of N4 million have been expended to achieve the full course of the 2020/2021 bursary scheme being pioneered by the Member of Parliament, who has now assumed an iconic status in the student community.

A statement, which was personally signed by the parliamentarian and made available to Kristina Reports clarified that “the designed framework of the beneficiaries of this undergraduate bursary empowerment scheme was drawn across the 104 Units and 12 Wards of my constituency (Bonny LGA) and as well the integration of other stakeholders’ interest in the overall benefit of all and sundry.”

He added that “exactly Four Hundred (400) students each are benefitting Ten Thousand Naira (N10,000) within my constituency from various Nigerian Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and so forth.”

Abinye Blessing Pepple, who is also the Chairman of the House Committee On Power, further noted that his motivation to remain consistent in the education and training of the youths in his constituency was spurred by his resolve to add value to his constituents which are topmost of his campaign promises during the electioneering season.