Education, best way to eliminate insurgency - Mark

Senate President, David Mark, has described education as the bedrock to national development and the best strategy to fight and eliminate societal ills like terrorism and insurgency.

Mark,  according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Paul Mumeh, on Sunday in Abuja,  stated this on his Otukpo country home while distributing N100m scholarship grants to 1,719 Benue State indigenes in the various higher institutions across the country.

The statement explained that the Senate President under his David  Mark Scholarship Foundation has offered scholarship to 12,685 students so far in the tertiary category since inception in 2005.

It added that the programme was different from other awards designed by the foundation for orphans , gifted children where about 1,000 students in that category are enjoying full scholarship from primary school to University level.

It added that, “So far, about N900m has been spent on the scholarship scheme since its inception nine years ago.”

Mark, while distributing the awards to the benefitting students in the premises of the National Open University of Nigeria , Otukpo study Centre in Benue state, said he took education as his pet project because “the sector is the only road-map and indeed the  bed rock of any development.”

He added “with good and quality education , most of the societal ills plaguing our nation  including armed robbery, kidnapping , terrorism and insurgency would be eliminated.”

The Senate President therefore implored the beneficiaries to justify the awards by exhibiting good conducts and studying hard in order to come out in flying colours

source: http://www.punchng.com/news/education-best-way-to-eliminate-insurgency-mark/

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