The former governor, Ibukunle Amosun, said the model schools were going to raise the standard of education in the state but after spending...
On May 29, 2012, at an event marking the first anniversary of his administration, the immediate past governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, reeled out his achievements.
As it is usually the case with the development of new projects, ordinary people and communities would be expected to make sacrifices such as the demolition of their properties and the loss of their land . For instance, Musafau Adebisi, a retired civil servant and the Baale of Oke Odo community in Ago Iwoye, Ijebu North Local Government Area, got to his farm one morning in 2012 but discovered his crops had been destroyed.
However, the May 2012 edition of a monthly magazine published by the state’s Ministry of Information, Ogun Update, claimed that it cost the government N750 million to build each of the schools. He said this on the sidelines of the inauguration of a housing scheme in Isheri, Ifo Local Government Area in May 2019.Despite Mr Amosun’s self-adulation, some stakeholders in the state were not impressed by his decision to build the model secondary schools. Critics of the project argued that it was a waste of public funds and misplacement of educational priority.
“The existing schools should be taken care of in terms of structures, teachers, as well as the environment. Most of the existing schools in Ogun are over-populated. Many structures are in a sorry state, some buildings have leaking roofs, no furniture for the students, and no replacement for retired teachers,” said Akeem Lasisi, the chairman of the association.
“We have so many brilliant students in our public schools that don’t have the opportunity to go to private schools. But with these model schools, once you are brilliant and you are doing well, you can come. It’s a subsidised form of school for the less privileged,” she said.
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