The Oyo State Executive Council has approved the rehabilitation of 100 public secondary schools across the 33 local government areas as well as the construction of four compartments Very Important Personality toilets.
The government also disclosed that the project would cost the sum of N1,960,417,772.57, saying that a total of 10 contractors would handle the projects in the one hundred schools across the state.
The State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Toye Arulogun, who made the disclosure on Sunday in Ibadan, said that the State Executive Council gave the approval during its meeting held last week.
Arulogun said that the upgrading of infrastructural facilities in schools to facilitate the provision of the much required enabling learning environment that will fast track the transformation and repositioning of the education sector in Oyo State is non-negotiable.
He emphasised that the Ajimobi-led administration had prioritised education as one of its legacy sectors.
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The commissioner explained that 34 schools would be renovated in schools in local government areas in Ibadan zone, 30 schools from Oke Ogun zone, 15 from Ogbomoso zone, 12 from Oyo zone while the remaining nine schools are from Ibarapa zone.
Arulogun said that the State’s Bureau of Public Procurement had issued the certification for the renovation of the one hundred schools, warning that contractors should abide by the project specification and duration.
The government spokesman stressed that the government would not relent in its resolve to positively turn around the education sector.
He pointed out that government’s efforts were already yielding fruitful results with the recent 54.4% pass rate in WASSCE being the best in the last eighteen years and students from the state being the first and second best in the 2017 WASSCE in Nigeria as well as the best 2017 WASSCE student in a public school celebrated at the recent launch of the State’s Education Trust Fund with scholarships.
