Ogun takes over 28 community schools, 577 teachers

The Ogun government has taken over the management of 28 community schools across the state to prevent imminent collapse.

The state government also absorbed 577 teachers in the schools into its civil service system. 

A statement by the chief press secretary to governor, Kunle Somorin, said government took the decision because most of the community schools were insolvent.

Speaking further, the special adviser to the governor on primary, secondary and vocationaleEducation,  Mrs Aderonke Soyombo, said the primary interest was the interest in the number of children that would be affected if they were not absorbed.

“The number of children to be affected if the absorption wasn’t done would have risen to over 9, 000,” Soyombo said.

The special adviser further said the community schools were absorbed by the Prince Dapo Abiodun administration after they were rejected and left alone by the immediate past administration in the state.

“The schools were passed unto us. The last dispensation didn’t take it over; they didn’t absorb them.  What we did was to absorb them.

“What we looked at was the number of children that will suffer and the number of children that was going to suffer was going to be almost 9,000, because, instead of those children suffering like that, we will rather take them in and empower those schools,” she said.

Soyombo also disclosed that the state government took an audit of all schools in the state, including the absorbed 28 community schools, with the view of having a clear data of schools in the state. She dded that the absorption of the 577 teachers won’t affect the current process of recruiting 1500 teachers into the state owned schools. 

She noted that even though they were given what look like the data of schools in the state upon swearing of the Prince Dapo Abiodun administration, but couldn’t work with the data because the data lacked the right information on the state of schools in the state.

“The absorption of the 577 teachers won’t affect the current exercise of recruiting 1500 teachers, it is a separate exercise, they gave us data when we came. There was no way we could run with the data because it was not clear on the areas where we will need teachers.”

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