Benue Govt debunks claim of non payment of scholarship allowance for 4 years

From Uche Nnorom, Makurdi

Benue State government has disclosed that it disbursed over N400 million between 2017 and 2021 as scolarship allowance to students in the state.
Executive Secretary of the State Scholarship Board, Dr Isaac Igbe made the disclosure during an interaction with correspondents in Makurdi on Tuesday.
The scholarship boss disclosure was against the backdrop of a petition written by a factional leader of the Nigeria Union of Benue State Students, NUBESS Amb. Yoosu Soonen Skyt, alleging that the state government has failed to pay their scholarship allowance for more than four years, even as it extorted 5,000 from the students for forms.
The group had also passed a vote of no confidence on Governor Samuel Ortom.
However, Dr Igbe said that the government had so far paid scholarship allowance seven times under the leadership of Governor Samuel Ortom to different category of beneficiaries in the state.