By Olushola Okewole
The management of Ejigbo High School has urged the 1987/88 set of the school to complete the six classrooms block project on time to ease the pains of pupils in crowded classes.
Besides, timely completion would encourage other sets of alumni to emulate them.
As a way of giving back to their Alma matter, the alumni of 1987/88 set led by the Chairman of Ejigbo LCDA, Hon. Monsuru Bello (Obe) had on December 28, 2019 laid the foundation of the block in the school premises, promising to complete the building as soon as possible.
Speaking on behalf of the alumni, Bello said: “It was a planned gesture by active members of the 87/88 Old Students of the school which I’m very much a part of and this has been put in place to help develop the citadel of learning which has produced great minds who are now leaders of different disciplines in all sphere of our society.
“What the 87/88 set is trying to do is to show appreciation that we have passed through this school. As stakeholders in the community, it is good to look back to the citadel of knowledge where we began our life.”
Reacting to the building project, the Vice Principal Administration, Mrs. Bolanle Owoseni, who spoke for the school Principal, Mrs. Stella Bassey, said the building project was a good intervention from the alumni as it was coming at the time the school was really in need of more classrooms for the students.
She expressed the joy of the management over the project, saying apart from being a block of classrooms; it would also serve as a hall for the school events as it would be constructed in such a way it could serve the dual purposes.
Meanwhile, the principal urged the alumni to ensure the building project is completed on time, praying it is not left as an abandoned project as experienced in the past on some projects in the school.
She commended the alumni, saying their good gesture showed that they are supporting and complementing the effort of the government on its ongoing rehabilitating of some facilities in the school.
The pioneering principal of the school, Mrs. A. J. Akintayo also appreciated the gesture by the 1987/88 set for remembering the school that groomed them.
Among other gifts to the school by the alumni is a public address system worth N135,000 presented to the school principal, Mrs. Bassey to aid communication in the school premises.
