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Oba Adedokun Abolarin is the Orangun of Oke-lla and the proprietor of Abolarin College. He tells BOLA BAMIGBOLA why he established a school for indigent childrenSocial justice and I also had the intention of going into politics because of the politicians of my time that I grew up knowing – people like the Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Akinloye, Chief Richard Akinjide and Adeoye Adisa were all lawyers.
Basically, these are children from public primary schools. We don’t admit from the private schools. We all know that public primary schools are not what they used to be. We conduct an examination for them and afterwards, do interviews where we scrutinise them. After we are done with this, we go to their various homes to establish the fact that they meet our criteria. Then their headmasters will write a briefing on them.
It is a big problem. A lot of them who have gone home have been calling me, saying they want to come back to school but there is nothing we can do. We just hope that the pandemic will be a thing of the past. Sincerely, I feel for them and for the 20 of them who stayed behind, we have been doing our best to cater for them.I do this because I think and care about the future and like I earlier said, I had a platform to operate. That is the chieftaincy platform.
The pioneer set of the school would have taken the West African Senior School Certificate Examination if not for the disruption by COVID-19. What is your expectation? They would have sat for our first WAEC exam but for COVID-19. They did well in their JAMB. Of the 28 we presented, one scored 165. Twelve of them scored between 180 and 199 and 15 of them scored 200 and above. We are certain that 27 of them will make it to higher institutions.That is the preparation we have been giving them here. We taught them about hard work, for them to lean on one another and for them to be creative and productive while in school.
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