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The gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party PDP, for the 2022 general elections and senator representing Cross River Central Senatorial District, Sen Sandy Onor has called on students of COLMCILLE Memorial Academy Egrude – Ntamante, Boki Local Government Area to take their studies very seriously and shun all forms of vices that will impact negatively on their academic performances.
Sen Sandy who was represented by the Director General of the Caterpillar Movement, Chief Joe Obi Bisong, made the admonition during the meiden graduation ceremony of COLMCILLE Memorial Academy Egrude – Ntamante, Boki LGA held on Saturday, July 23rd 2022.
The lawmaker identified and condemned the deteriorating rate of learning among students in our contemporary society, especially in the rural setting. He charged the students to rise to the challenge of the moment by taking their studies very seriously and put in their best to enable them compete favorably with other students when the need arises.
Speaking further, senator Onor decried the increasing rate of drug abuse amongst students, which he referred to as a fertile ground for the upshoot of prostitution, cultism and occultism among young people.
He said, “When you do drugs and become intoxicated or high, it becomes easy for you to be initiated into cultism. When you get initiated, you begin to look for ways to protect yourself from harm, that is how you will have to move from drugs to cultism and to occultism, where you finally sell yourself to the devil”.
He used the opportunity to commend the management and staff of the institution for all the efforts and sacrifices made to inculcate the needed knowledge in the students which he referred to as future Presidents, Governors, Engineers, Medical Doctors among other professions. He stressed that the students needs to be given nothing less, than the best as the generation next rest on them. He congratulated the school, parents and students for the successful outing of the madein graduation ceremony.
Sen Onor charged the graduands to be worthy ambassadors of their alma mater and wished them the best as they seek admission into higher institutions of learning.
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