A former governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, has called on governments at all levels to be committed to the basic education of Nigerian children.
Aregbesola recalled that during his tenure as the governor of Osun, he undertook some programmes and policies to revolutionalise basic education in the state.The immediate-past Minister of Interior stated this on Saturday, in Akure, during a ‘Welcome Home’ reception organised for him by members of the Old Students’ Association of Akoko Anglican Grammar School, Arigidi Akoko, Ondo State, of which he is a member.
Aregbesola said, “All governments must know that no matter how attractive private schools may be, they will never be able to displace government-funded public foundation education schools, if we really want to provide education to all the children and stimulate development from bottom up. It is a dream we must never give up on.
“When I became governor in Osun, I sought to replicate this idea. Our administration built 11 state-of-the-art 3,000-capacity model secondary schools, in addition to rehabilitating and upgrading the existing ones. “Each school has 72 classrooms, which can each comfortably accommodate 49 students and six rooms for study groups. It was equipped with six laboratories, 36 toilets separated equally for boys and girls, two libraries for science and arts each, facility manager’s office, a bookshop and a sickbay.
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