The Mr LA Care Foundation founded and funded by Lawal Usman on Wednesday, concluded the disbursement of the third batch of its N50m donation to aid Kaduna state students meet the disabling high tuition imposed by the state governor, Nasir Elrufai.
Recall that Mr Adamu, fondly called Mr LA, the Peoples Democratic Party senatorial candidate in the 2019 elections for Kaduna Central pledged an initial sum of N50 million to ease the pains caused parents and students with the near 100% increase in tuition announced by Elrufai.
Known for making promises and keeping them, Mr LA immediately commenced disbursement to verified eligible beneficiaries across the state in trenches with batch three just concluded and the process for the next batch commenced.
Making the announcement, LA’s special media consultant, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, asked beneficiaries to kindly pick their original receipts at the Foundation office as from Friday, the 5th of November 2021 at their convenience.
Earlier, Adamu had, on his verified Facebook account, announced that the Foundation intends to conclude the final disbursement of the N50 million for the 2020/21 academic session within the next week.
“We hope that beneficiaries will no longer suffer the trauma and fear of inability to pay tuition. I thank God Almighty for giving us this opportunity to be of service to humanity.
“My prayer as always is to have our institutions incubate good men and women of integrity who will be self engineered,” he said while congratulating the beneficiaries.
Recall that Kaduna State government recently made upward review of tuition fees for the state University from N24,000 and N26,000 to N150,000 and N500,000, for indigenes and non-indigenes, respectively.
