By Igoniko Oduma Yenagoa
The National Union of Bayelsa State Students (NUBSS) has called on Governor Seriake Dickson to pay bursary allowance to students of Bayelsa State origin in institutions of higher learning in Nigeria for the 2013/2014 academic session.
The students’ body made the call in a statement issued on Thursday in Yenagoa and signed by the President, Richard Lawyer, and the Secretary, Sese ThankGod.
It stated that the state government had paid only 5,000 students out of the 300,000 students who registered for the session.
NUBSS said that Bayelsa students in several universities, polytechnics and colleges of educations, who were subjected to a rigorous bursary registration process in March 2014, had yet to be paid till date.
The NUBSS insisted that its members in the North, East, South and Western parts of the country had not received a dime despite claims by Dickson that the government had released N200million so far for the exercise.
It appealed to the governor to expedite action on the payment of the bursary allowance which he had announced to the world that he had awarded to them.
The NUBSS warned that it may not be able stop Bayelsa students from taking to the streets in the weeks ahead to express their grievance if Dickson failed to do the needful.
All efforts to get the reaction of the Commissioner for Education, Dein Benadoumene, proved abortive as his phone was switched off at press time.
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