Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said Tuesday that his administration would soon be hiring trained teachers to strengthen quality education in its schools.
The governor said his administration would spare no effort to expand quality teaching to pupils in all state-owned schools.
This was revealed following the governor’s directive to the Ministry of Education to recruit trained teaching personnel and provide vital resources that would strengthen quality education across government’s schools.
Sanwo-Olu spoke at the inauguration of three key projects in Ajah, Eti-Osa local council development area. The projects include the 110-bed Maternal and Child Centre (MCC), a 12-block classroom for junior secondary school and a rehabilitated Primary Health Centre.
Unveiling the school and the rehabilitated health centre, Sanwo-Olu said, “My administration is not going to walk away from its responsibility of catering for the educational needs of every child that is of school age. We will give our children the opportunity to attend quality schools that will not be too far away from them. This morning, I gave a directive to the Commissioner for Education that all schools owned by the state government be equipped with well-trained teachers that will help us to deliver quality training to our children in line with development agenda of my administration.
“The charge to the commissioner also involves the provision of basic resources that would strengthen our schools and empower them to deliver the desired results we envisage in education and manpower development.”
The governor said his administration would remain open to corporate organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGO) and religious institutions for partnership that would be beneficial to all residents of the state. He reiterated that the government under his leadership would not shirk its responsibility in providing necessary amenities to the citizens.
The opening of the Eti-Osa Maternal and Child Centre, the eighth of its kind in the state, was replete with fanfare, as residents trooped out of their residents to welcome the governor and members of his cabinet to the occasion.
Sanwo-Olu said the provision of the secondary health facility in Eti-Osa axis would reduce pressure on the Lagos Island General Hospital and save expectant mothers living in Ajah axis of the pain to travel a long distance for antenatal and post-natal care.
Also on Tuesday, Commissioner for Information and Strategy Gbenga Omotoso said the most visible achievement of Sanwo-Olu administration in the first 100 days in office is the disappearance of heaps of garbage on major streets.
“The most visible impact of the course of action this administration has taken so far in respect of the environment is the disappearance of heaps of garbage on major streets and highways across the state,” the commissioner said.
He promised that government was going to be more scientific about dumpsites.
