By Charles Igbo
The unprecedented happened on Monday, August 25; 2025. A Senator of the Federal Republic, Mohammed Sani Musa, has lifted darkness from over 200 families and replaced it with light.
On that Monday, 200 Students from Senator Musa’s Constituency, North East Senatorial District, Niger State, boarded flights out of Nigeria. Their destination: India and China. They proudly and justifiably wore a blue t-shirt on which his picture was emblazoned.
The Senator, in an unprecedented service to his people, decided to sponsor the students to different tertiary institutions in the two countries to study critical courses.
The students, males and females, are to study medicine, engineering, technology and management sciences – all to be fully sponsored by this benevolent Senator.
It is not known how the Senator would manage with the bills. It is definitely not part of his Constituency project. But by his laudable act, the Senator has challenged his colleagues many of whom offer their constituents nothing that would lift them out of poverty, some of them just little or nothing.
A very impressed Nigerian, Rita Ebiuwa, who commented on Senator Musa’s feat compared him to the Senators down South, and wrote:
“What many of our Senators from the South parade as ’empowerment’ are nothing more than the distribution of wheelbarrows, cutlasses, generators, keke, and other items that neither create long-term value nor contribute to sustainable development.
“These token gestures may provide temporary relief, but they do not address the root causes of poverty, or create pathways for real economic independence.
“On the other hand, Senator (Mohammed) Sani Musa has demonstrated a more progressive understanding of what true empowerment means.
“Rather than reducing it to handouts, he has chosen to invest in the future of our children by sponsoring their education abroad.”
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