Six years after the Enugu State Governor, Sullivan Chime, promised study scholarship to a set of quadruplets born by a peasant couple in the state, the beneficiaries are yet to enjoy the award. With barely eight month to the end of his administration, parents of the quadruplets, Mr Cyril Onu and his wife, Chinenye, are waiting for an angel that would carry their entreaties to the governor. The quadruplets, Stephen, Gift, Charles and Miracle, who are presently in their final year at Hill Crest Primary School, Nsukka, had faced ejection severally from school because their parents were unable to pay their school fees. It took the kindness of the school management and the promise of the parents to offset the accumulated fees later in future to keep them in the school.
With N250,000 arrears of school fees over the years, even the quadruplets know that they are enjoying a limited period of grace in school, considering that the management needs fund to pay the teachers, provide facilities and run other sundry expenditures.
Our reporter, who visited Onu’s family at their Alor-Uno residence, located at the outskirts of Nsukka town, met the young couple worried. Looking downcast, Onu said the scholarship promised by Chime, on behalf of the Enugu State Government, on January 2, 2008, to the quadruplets, Stephen, Gift, Charles and Miracle when he hosted them in his residence has not been implemented till date.
He told our reporter that series of letters written to the governor and other government ministries for the implementation of the programme never elicited any response, leaving him worried that the mails never got to the governor’s table.
“I know that His Excellency is a listening governor. I am afraid that he never got any of the letters we wrote for the implementation of the scholarship programme, as he promised. My wife is also worried because we were excited when he made the promise in 2008. We are still hoping that one day, he will remember us again,” he said.
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