Pass Mark Given To Sanwo-Olu On Education Excites NGO

A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), the Congress of Progressive Youth (CPY), has expressed excitement over the pass mark given to the Lagos State on school rehabilitation and curriculum development by the House of Representatives, saying, the pass mark was a deserved morale booster for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and heart-warming to the state’s residents.

The House of Representatives for Curriculum Reforms and Rehabilitation in its exercise being carried out in basic and secondary school across the state gave the pass mark recently while discharging its oversight functions on education.

The NGO, in a statement from its Convener, Comrade Adebayo Oyenekan said, Governor Sanwo-Olu’s adequate spending on education to add to its value is already manifesting to the extent that the National Assembly in Abuja is also taking note of it, saying, “this has further confirmed that the governor has never relented in its efforts at taking care of all the sectors in the state giving each sector its deserved priority.

The House Committee on Basic Education and Service, under its Chairman, Professor Julius Ihovnbere, was quoted to have commended Sanwo-Olu for providing executive support for Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), to achieve its statutory mandate and therefore make basic education attractive to children in Lagos State.

The love the governor has for youth development must have gingered him to jerk the education budget from eight per cent to twelve (12) per cent in the current year’s fiscal spending, saying, “this is in line with Sanwo-Olu’s commitment to building human capital through quality education.”

The NGO agreed with the governor that, supporting the Federal Government in building of proper structure as the foundation for the children from the primary school with the aim of improving human capital index to create a better future for the youth, stressing the need to support the governor to prepare children and the youth that would be physically and mentally ready for future challenges in all areas of human endeavour.

No wonder Professor Ihovnbere further commented Sanwo-Olu for creating special mandate for the school rehabilitation and provision of learning materials that would encourage education just as he challenged other states to emulate Lagos for the improvement of education in their respective states.

The NGO congratulated the Sanwo-Olu on the impression created in the mind of the House Committee and its chairman that, “it has seen some encouraging level of progress in the provision of necessary infrastructure in the public school system” in Lagos, and that, “the state is not called Centre of Excellence for not for nothing.”

More gratifying, according to the NGO, is to note that the concluding message of the Committee was, “we don’t want the state to relax in its efforts (as) the way Lagos is working to make education attractive, there is no doubt that the state would continue to be among leading state, where enrolment in education has improved significantly.”