Shogunle seeks secondary school, old students donate water tank
By Edith Igbokwe
Stakeholders in Shogunle community of Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area are agitating for a public secondary school to reduce distance trekked by kids to school.
And while thanking the government for providing primary schools, they want the government to renovate the classrooms and provide more toilets.
They spoke through a community leader, Mr. Adeyemi Soyetan when old students of the Local Government Primary School commissioned a new water tank and the renovated block of classrooms.
Soyetan said the community is seriously in need of a public secondary school to ease their children’s challenge of seeking secondary education in far distance.
His words: “Shogunle is long overdue to have a public secondary school in the community.”
Noting that the community has two compounds housing the four public primary schools, he suggested that the primary schools be merged into one compound and the other used to erect a secondary school for their wards.
Commending the old students, Soyetan said:“It is a rare gesture to see students’ going back to their primary school to support, what is common is secondary/ university alumni. I am happy with their good gesture.”
He advised others to emulate them in developing standards for the primary education in the community.
Also supporting the idea of pmerging some primary school to make way for a secondary school, the Head teacher of Folaranmi Primary School, which shares a compound with Ago-Owu Nursery/Primary School, Mrs. Mary Kehinde
Abaekere, complained that all the schools in the community lack basic infrastructures such as classrooms, toilet, fence and furniture to aid academic activities.
She noted that her school, which has just only six classrooms to accommodate about 224 pupils, needs furnitures.
She also thanked the management of TAIKEN Food Nigeria for donating a toilet to the school in September last year.
The management of Temidire Primary School and Local Government Primary School also complained that many of their classrooms have collapsed without any attempt to renovate them, adding that their pupils go out of the schools to purchase water to flush their toilets.
They said the newly built classrooms by the member of the Federal House of Representatives representing Oshodi-Isolo constituency II are not enough to accommodate the large population of the pupils.
They therefore appealed to the government and other concerned authorities to come to their aid.
