SIR: Ordinarily, it would not be out of place to commend the gesture of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki in awarding N1million scholarship to two first class law graduates from University of Ilorin, but no! The subterfuge and deceit embedded has made the whole exercise a worthless one. Is it not curious, not to mention suspicious that the same person who has failed to use his position as an influential public officer and a behemoth in Kwara politics to persuade the Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, to award a similar scholarship to successful law students from Nigerian law school has suddenly found it necessary to award same to a select law students? It seems to us that someone is clearly trying to crawl back to public reckoning. We have seen this handwriting before.

The truth of the matter is that the government of Kwara State has continued to pay lip service to the award of scholarship to law students. It would be recalled that the government of Kwara State in March 2014 undertook and promised to disburse bursaries to successful 2012/2013 law students from Law School. The government never fulfilled that promise. It is shameful and shocking that a constituted authority could tell a barefaced lie to its citizens in an orchestrated plan to pull the wool over their eyes. Worst still, the government has not deemed it proper to explain the reasons behind its failure to fulfil its promise. Where is the morality and accountability in governance? Where is the conscience in good leadership? For the record, we are disappointed.

While we congratulate the two awardees for a scholarship well deserved, we hasten to state without any fear of contradiction that the exercise is neither complete nor sincere until Kwara State government settles other outstanding scholarships due to others since 2013. This is the only way to demonstrate that this piece-meal award of scholarship is not political and one meant to launder personal image.

Taofeeq Nasir & Bakare Idris Lagos