*Says education system undergoing reform
Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo
Osun State government has attributed the huge number of out of school children in the state to years of neglect of the education sector by the Gboyega Oyetola administration, saying his governance record was a disaster.
It, however, listed pending recruitment of 6000 teachers as part of the administration’s three pronged approach to redressing the situationThe state government, which reacted to a statement credited to Oyetola, rebuking it, described the linkage of high number of out of school to disengagement of last minute, illegally recruited teachers as an insult on the people of the state.
The government posited that Osun suffered years of educational neglect and misplaced priority under the Oyetola government.“It is on records that the last administration in a series of post-election booby traps employed over 10,000 workers to make the state ungovernable for the incoming Adeleke government, a development the new government promptly addressed with six executive orders to restore normalcy.“If the former Governor was really interested in addressing the rot in the education sector, how come he waited till he lost the election before rushing through recruitment of teachers against due process and extant laws?
“If the so-called recruited teachers were retained, how would that have positively impacted on poor learning conditions, dilapidated school infrastructures, parental economic crisis and overwhelming dislocations within the school environment, which are the real reasons for the high number of out of school children inherited from Oyetola government?
“As part of efforts to clear the mess of past government, the state government organised an education summit which proffered far reaching recommendations covering all sub-sectors of the state education system.
“A white paper has now being approved by the state Executive Council for the implementation of the recommendations of the summit,” it stated.
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