Education Shouldn’t Be Subject For Petty Squabbles, Says Aregbesola

The governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the education of Osun children should not be a subject for petty squabbles, noting that his administration’s efforts at revamping education never had a religious motive.

 Speaking at the formal commissioning of Baptist Central Elementary School, Ilare, Ile-Ife, held at the school premises, the governor noted that government has committed N14.4billion to capital projects in elementary schools, while recurrent expenditure is N21billion.

 Aregbesola added that N13.43billion has been spent on schools, which amounts to per capita spending of N84,000 per elementary school pupil, and N30,000 per secondary school pupil, stressing that total capital expenditure on all old schools in the last three years is N31.31billion.



He pointed out that works and spending are still going on and will not stop until the administration achieves its goal of making public schools in Osun places where pupils can get the kind of education that will place them at par with the very best in the world.

 “What we have brought to education in Osun, if we will not sound immodest, amounts to a revolution. Critics who will be honest should compare this new school and its facilities to what obtained when they went to school and what public schools have become of recent.

 “Let me repeat for the umpteenth time that our efforts at revamping education never had a religious motive.

We are motivated by the highest ideal of developing a complete personality who will be an asset to the society as he would be to himself. leadership