Osun dismisses APC’s claims of inadequate infrastructure, teachers in public schools

Osun dismisses APC’s claims of inadequate infrastructure, teachers in public schools

Osun State Government has dismissed claims that public primary and secondary schools in the state are facing crises due to a shortage of basic amenities and manpower.

The Chairman of the Osun State Teaching Service Commission, Mr Temitope Mustapha, who made this known on Friday in Osogbo, spoke at a one-day workshop for members of the state’s Timetable Committee.

Mustapha said the present administration has prioritised education, stressing that no school, whether in urban or rural areas, will be neglected under Governor Ademola Adeleke’s school development programme.

“No school is going into extinction in Osun State. In fact, our students in rural areas performed excellently in their NECO and WASSCE examinations, a feat that helped the state move from 30th to 7th position nationally.

“The insinuation that rural schools are closing down is false and peddled by enemies of progress. Under the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke, no such thing has happened, and it will not happen,” Mustapha said.

The Osun TESCOM boss added that the state government has deployed some of the newly recruited teachers to rural areas to complement existing staff strength.

Mustapha, however, urged those responsible for preparing subject timetables in schools to see themselves as the compass that directs activities and to never compromise on their duties.

“Every teacher, except principals and their vice principals, must be placed on 24 periods per week,” he further said.

PUNCH Online reports that the Director General of the All Progressives Congress Campaign Committee for the Osun August 15 governorship poll, Mr Wole Oke, at the inauguration of the party’s campaign committees, alleged that the resources that have accrued to the state in the last three and a half years have been misused.

He further said, “We don’t have school buildings, we don’t have teachers, our children are no longer going to public schools again, and these are the schools that we all attended.”