Osun Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has inaugurated a community-based management committee for schools in the state for effective maintenance of public school facilities across the state.
Committee members, drawn from all the local governments in the state, are grouped in three categories for all the local governments for elementary, middle and high schools respectively.
Speaking at the inauguration held at the Government Technical College in Osogbo, Aregbesola pointed out that the move is aimed at returning the schools to the communities, which he described as the original owners for easy management and maintenance.
He said government has inaugurated the committee because it is believed that the community owns education and they are the ones who can manage better than anybody.
The governor stressed that, “education is very critical because it is an area where no society can afford to fail,” and emphasised that “it is only through education that the society can meet up the present and safeguard the future.”
The governor, among other objectives, charged committee members to source for funds to maintain and manage the schools without creating unnecessary burden on parents and pupils but to find a way of assisting them.
He also charged the committee to identify the school needs and lapses so as to find lasting solutions to them, while also explaining to them not to see their appointment into the various committees as a political reward but a call to be part of history.
He said,”It makes good sense to know that community-based approach to school management is the best approach anywhere in the world as it is effective in the management of our schools.
“We are spending so much in the education sector because education is critical to every society, it is an area where no society can afford to fail, the education sector is important because it is through education that a society can meet up with the present and safeguard the future.”
“Education is the primary foundation of every development, the technology of building, architecture science among others are acquired through education, so there is nothing you can do without education”
“With the trend in the world, the whole world is now going digital and one can not but conclude that the future belongs to only the educated”
“I want you to know that this assignment should not be seen as a political reward, you should rather see it as a call to be part of history because we changing the face of education in the state of Osun and we will be surely remembered for it”
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