By Oludamisi Ojo,Akure.
Ondo State Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Olufemi Agagu (FNIVS) has said that the intention of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s administration in the state is to leave a legacy in the education sector which the state would be proud of in decades to come.
The Commissioner spoke on Monday in Akure, the state capital while receiving the Chairman of the Ondo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Rt. Hon. Victor Olabimtan and other management staff of the board in his office in Akure.
Agagu said the present administration in the state since inception has remained committed to improving the standard and quality of education through the provision of infrastructural facilities, qualified personnel, reading materials, and effective monitoring of schools among others.
He expressed the readiness of the ministry to work with all affiliate boards and agencies to harness available potentials, tandem with the ‘One-Administration’ policy of Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu led government towards achieving the best for the people of the state.
The Commissioner explained that the various programmes and policies of the state government were targeted towards enthroning a functional and dependable education system where the students can compete favorably with their counterparts in other parts of the world.
Agagu emphasized that the decision of the Chairman of SUBEB, Rt. Hon. Victor Olabimtan to carry along the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, in all the dealings of the board was a welcome development, describing him as a go-getter who knows what he wants and how to get it.
The Chairman of the Ondo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Rt. Hon. Victor Olabimtan said he was in the Ministry to acknowledge that SUBEB is an agency under the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, and to intimate the Commissioner of his readiness to work harmoniously with him and his entire team.
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He hailed the Commissioner and his team for all he has been doing to improve the standard and quality of education in the state.
Olabimtan assured that public secondary schools would witness rapid infrastructural development now that SUBEB was ready to work with the ministry.
He maintained that since the mandate of SUBEB covers junior secondary education, JSS 1-3, many of the structures would be captured in the next projects of the board.
