Bayelsa senator showers education support on constituents
The senator representing Bayelsa West in the National Assembly, Sen. Henry Seriake Dickson, has given educational grants to six hundred students from the Senatorial district.
The senator said, on Tuesday, in Abuja, that he decided to give the education support funds to the beneficiaries in pursuit of his passion for educational development in the society.
He said that he had always listed education as a priority sector because of his awareness of the inseparable link between education and development in the society.
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Sen. Dickson stressed that developmental efforts in infrastructure and other critical areas would not endure without first developing the human mind through education.
Said he, “Just like what I did for the law students last year, I will be unveiling a scholarship program later this year, that will be merit-based and merit/driven.
“Just as I keep telling everybody, for every form of development – building of roads, bridges and house however beautiful, however expensive they are, they will deteriorate “ if we do not first build the human mind.
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“The only investment that has trans generational impact, where you invest in one person and the impact will be counting on generations (that goes to the future) is education.
“That is why I keep investing in education, because it does not require repair and renovation and I keep identifying it, in my own modest way up till now and that is what I did as a governor.
“People don’t know what I went through, I built schools and provided schooling materials, computers for students and fed them.
“That is only done by a leader who is futuristic and visionary, and who desires to see a better tomorrow for his people and the benefits will come in years to come beyond the tenure of the initiator, and even the parents and relation may not see the gain today.”
