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The Kogi Central senatorial candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Natasha Akpoti has paid the tuition fees of the 600 pupils she adopted.
Akpoti, through her NGO, Builders Hub Impact Investment Program (BHIIP), adopted the 600 pupils in 2016. The pupils comprising 278 orphans were adopted by Natasha in commemoration of her late father, Dr. Jimoh Abdul Akpoti who died on 3rd November, 1998.
The gesture was also a demonstration of her penchant for education, the need for an average Nigerian to have education and to demonstrate the lesson taught by her father.
The Kogi Central SDP senatorial candidate has been in charge of the the welfare of the pupils in the last three years, paying their school fees, providing school bags, clothes, sandals and has opened a mini library and 22 sets of desktop computer at the Builders Hub Community Learning Resource Center where the children are being trained.
Narrating his encounter, the team leader of the volunteer group, Haruna Bashir said it took him sometimes before he could comport himself when a pupil who had lost both parents stood in front of him for his data verification.
“I wept without knowing it. When I asked him about his parents, he responded that they are dead and presently living with his aged grandmother.
“I however assured him that we will pay his school fees and will also be covered in a motherly love by Barrister Natasha Akpoti,” he said.
Reacting, the Headmaster of Central Primary school Obeiba, Momoh Jimoh stressed that is was the first time an individual will single-handedly take charge of the tuition fees of 600 children, providing school bags, clothes, sandals and other things for them every year, the parent are happy and they have been praying for God to protect her and empower her to do more.
According to him, the teachers in their own little way have been in support of the laudable programme by providing the pupils for their data verification every year.
“One is not rich until one can count the number of people one has helped to realise their potentials, adding that Ebira can testify to the godly path Barrister Natasha Hadiza Akpoti has chosen to tread with the little at her disposal.
“Our people should learn from this godly way Barrister Natasha Hadiza Akpoti has chosen to give back to the society, it is not until one gives millions of naira before one will be able to make an impact but the little we give can go a long way to give hope to the hopeless.
“Some of the children have lost their both parents, if not for Barr. Natasha, some of them wouldn’t have been able to pay the school fees. Many of them have stopped coming to school because they couldn’t pay their school fees, but we will send for them to inform them that their mother has settled their school fees, ” he said.
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