C’River community hails APC chief for paying tuition for pupils

Residents of Adadama community in Abi Council of Cross River State have commended the National Woman Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Beta Edu, for paying the school fees of 700 pupils and students.

Edu, a former Director General of Cross River State Primary Healthcare Development Agency and Commissioner for Health, has been in charge of pupils’ welfare in the last eight years, paying their fees, providing school bags, clothes, sandals, exercise books and other educational materials.

Women Leader of the community, Mrs. Abigail Lebo, expressed gratitude for Edu’s continuous support for children’s education, especially indigent pupils.
She said: “One is not rich until one can count the number of people one has helped to realise their potential, Adadama women can testify to the godly path Edu has chosen to thread with the little at her disposal.

“We also thank her for donating about N1m to secure accreditation for students in Adadama migrant school. Now they can write WASCE.

“Our people should learn from this godly way she has chosen to give back to the society, it is not until one gives millions of naira before one will be able to make an impact, but the little we give can go a long way to give hope to the hopeless.”

Speaking through one of the teachers from the community school, the village Head, Mrs. Mercy Ekom, said: “Some of the children have lost both parents, most parents can’t go to farm anymore because of the communal clash and war between Adadama and Nkwokocha people of Ebonyi State. 

“The economy of the village is down. We can’t produce even garri because there is no farm. if not for Betta, some of them wouldn’t have been able to pay school fees. Many of them stopped coming to school because they couldn’t pay their school fees, but we will send for them to inform them that their mother has settled their school fees.”