Qualitative Education: Ogun MDG Hands Over Facilities To LGAs

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Effort towards having qualitative and affordable education in Ogun State on Tuesday received a boost as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) office in the State handed over some facilities to two public schools in two different Local Government Areas in the State.The facilities are a block of 8-classroom with ancillary at the Odeda Local Government Public Nursery and Primary School II, Obantoko, and a block of 3-classroom as well as modern toilet facilities in Ansaur deen Primary School, Ikenne.

Speaking while handing them over to the school authorities, Commissioner for Budget and Planning who doubles as the Chairman, MDGs Implementation Committee in the State, Mrs. Oluwande Moyo indicated that the Senator Ibikunle Amosun led-administration places a high premium on educational development of the State as it believes that it is the pivot on which socio-economic advancement rotates.She therefore called on the school authorities to ensure that the new structures were put to optimal use. Moyo recalled that before now, the MDGs office in the State had provided 130 solar powered boreholes across primary schools in the State just as school buildings, chairs and benches were also provided in three selected Local Government Areas.

Also speaking, the Special Adviser to the Governor on MDGs, Mrs. Hafsat Abiola-Costello said the sum of N200millon had been expended on school projects under the MDGs.She added that another N100million had been expended on the provision of water supply, environmental sustainability, renovation of healthcare centres and Conditional Cash Transfer for pregnant women to prevent pre-maternal, maternal and post-maternal deaths of poor pregnant women in the State.

In their remarks, Chairmen, Odeda Local Government, Hon. Sulaiman Adebayo and his Ikenne Local Government counterparts, Hon. Tajudeen Salako, expressed gratitude to the Governor Amosun for the prompt payment of counterparts fund assuring that the facilities would be put to good use. The duo added that the gesture would go a long way in enhancing teaching and learning in the schools.

On her part, a retired Inspector of Education, Olori Yetunde Gbadebo, expressed profound gratitude to the State Government for providing the classrooms, pointing they would help in preparing the pupils for their roles as future leaders, calling for provision of more primary schools and fortification of the inspectorate division of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.