Over 2,000 widows, less privileged get Olu Alo’s empowerment, scholarship
Over 2,000 widows, aged, youths, students and vulnerable people in Ekiti State have benefitted from the 2024 edition empowerment and scholarship award programme by renowned cleric, Prophet Sam Olu Alo.
The cleric, who gave out food items, cash and clothing materials to the beneficiaries also presented cheques to some secondary students in Ekiti state for the payment of their WAEC fees.
The prophet also donated a multi-million industrial borehole to Orin Ekiti community, home town of his mother.
Speaking at his hometown in Ido Ekiti, the Cleric said the scheme, which has been in existence since 13 years, was in fulfilment of his pledge to God during youthful days.
The cleric urged Federal Government to invest more on public schools and rework their operations to bring back their old glory of top performance, saying such action will ensure quality teaching and learning in all public primary, secondary and higher institutions in the country.
He also called on Nigerian leaders to make deliberate efforts at changing the country for better and the citizens to eschew all forms of corruption for Nigeria to develop.
According to him, no amount of loan given to a student whose school fees is well over one million will be enough.
He said “A parent who enrolled his child or children in an institution where they pay N500 000, N700 000 as fees is believed to be sufficient financially.
“If I were to be in government, what I will do is to reintroduce free education policy all public schools to free education for the poor Nigeria and also recruit competent teachers. It is because public schools are not as good as of the times , that is why people now prefer to enroll their children and wards in private schools this days.
“Parents are struggling to send their children to school these days. It will be good if President Bola Tinubu can help rejig public schools by coming up with the policy of free education and recruit quality and competent teachers to be as they were in the olden days , which he himself went through during the time of late Chief Awolowo through which many glorious children were raised.
“You will realise that most of the students that are doing well today in their academics are from private schools. Even when they finish from private secondary schools and go to public universities that means they have been given solid foundation”.
Prophet Olu-Alo, who suggested the loan facility be given to the parents and not the students in private universities, arguing giving the loans directly to the students may create problems.
“The highest amount payable as fees in most public universities in the country depending on the courses is around 400,000 naira. while in private universities, we have those paying 1 million and above, so if they should be given loans it may not work .
“I am sure one of the motive of the government on the students loan to only the public universities students is to make public universities attractive to Nigerian parents and their children again.”
An Ido Ekiti community leader, Hon. prophet Afolabi Olurotimi described prophet Olu-Alo as a true man of God who God is using in the development of the community.
He said:” He has done a lot to contribute to the development of this town. Parts of what he has done is donation of a trailer load of cement for the construction of the community civic centre, donation of a state-of-the-art library to the community, support for widows, aged , youths empowerment. Scholarship to student and establishment of football team and radio state to create job for the teeming unemployed youths”.
Two of the students who receive WAEC fees, Omotola Sunday and Akomolafe Ayomide thanked the cleric for his kind gesture, promising to make the most of the opportunity.
