By Flowerbudnews
The Member Representing Enugu North and South Federal Constituency, Chief Chimaobi Atu (LP), says educational empowerment remains the most powerful legacy to bequeath to the younger generation.
Atu said this on Sunday while inaugurating a newly-constructed block of six classrooms at Coal Camp Primary School, Ogbete, Enugu facilitated by him through collaboration with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals.
He noted that education would not only prepare the younger generation for the future but also for the global challenge the future would throw at them.
“We are equipping our children to get ready for future challenges through massive and continuous investment in education across every level and dimension and this will make them stand out in all they do as the world is a global village.
“Recently, I also renovated the Chemistry Laboratory at the Department of Industrial Chemistry, Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), where I graduated from.
“This upgrade provides students with improved facilities for practical learning, enhancing the quality of education in the sciences,” he said.
He, however, urged the pupils, teachers and school authorities of Coal Camp Primary School o put the classrooms and its amenities to judicious use, while protecting the facilities from vandals.
The lawmaker noted that through the Chimaobi Sam Atu Foundation (C-SAF), in 2024, he awarded scholarships covering WAEC and school fees to over 106 underprivileged but brilliant SS-3 students from 24 public secondary schools in his constituency.
He said that in 2025, no fewer than 245 top performers among SS-2 students in a test conducted by a Scholarship Board headed by Dr. Chidi Ezinwa (HOD of Mass Communication Department, ESUT) received full coverage for WAEC and school fees.
Atu said that additionally, the top
students in JAMB would receive full tertiary education scholarships, ensuring continuity in their academic pursuits.
“Through the C-SAF Foundation, we have also provided scholarship to primary 6 pupils entering Unity Schools in 2024 and 2025 as well as providing scholarship to some university students within my constituency.
“I have a passion that no willing and capable student in Enugu North and Enugu South Federal Constituency will be denied an education due to financial difficulties.
“The C-SAF scholarship initiative is inclusive, providing support regardless of political affiliation, family background, or personal connections,” he said.
Responding, a community leader in Coal Camp, Chief Paulinus Ani, appreciated Hon. Chimaobi Atu for the gesture, while assuring the lawmaker that the community members would join in protecting the new classroom block and its facilities
It would be recalled that Coal Camp Primary School, Ogbete, Enugu was originally built by colonialists in 1924; however, the school’s infrastructure had severely deteriorated over the century before infrastructural intervention of Atu.
