Date: 2016-11-09

Leadership of the Kwara State House of Assem­bly has appealed to the state Government to as a matter of necessity reward excellence in all endeavours to further ensure improved per­formance.

The Assembly made the resolution follow­ing a Matter of Gen­eral Public Importance raised by the House Leader, Hon Hassan Oyeleke, entitled: "Cre­ation of avenue for re­warding outstanding students and attention for extremely poor stu­dents in the State.".

The Deputy Speaker, Elder Matthew Oke­dare, who presided over the plenary noted that the act will restore the glory of rewarding excellent performance in the State, thereby in­spiring others to excel in their academic pur­suit and their chosen careers.

The House equally enjoined the state gov­ernment to design wel­fare programmes in the educational institutions in the State that would assist indigent students to realise their poten­tials.

The AUTHORITY learnt that Hon Oy­eleke had while raising the motion highlighted the need for the State Government to de­sign policy of giving special privileges like scholarship, automatic employment for ex­ceptional students in Primary, Secondary and Post-Secondary Institutions to serve as encouragement and in­spire others to excel in their academic pursuit.

Indigent students, ac­cording to him equally deserved attention of the state government to make them realise their potentials, and redress their psychological problem, stressing that failure to do this could make the affected stu­dents become nucleus of societal ills.